• Title
  Item 01: Sketchbook with scenes in Europe and New South Wales, 1836-39 / Emily Anne Manning
• Call number
  PXB 524
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1836-1839
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  449083
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (47 pencil drawings) - 14 x 23 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  i. From the collection of F. C. Corlette (nee Manning) List of old sketches by Emily Anne Manning ... [The note lists some items in the sketchbook and five additional separate drawings]
  1. Rolandseck [?]
  2. Drachenfels No 1
  2v. Drachenfels No 1 Continued
  3. Drachenfels No 2
  3v & 4. The Siebangeberg [and] Rolandsek
  4v. I'm now sitting on a heap of baggage at Binn waiting the arrival of the packet that is to convey us to Cologne. It saves such a long walk up to the [...?]. [Text only]
  5. [Studies of a barge and a man]
  6. [Unfinished sketch]
  7. Sketch from [...?]. The view from the drawing room at French[..?] near Bristol. December 1st 1836
  8. Ammonites obtuscis ... copied from Buckland, Feb. [..?] 1837. [Snail shell]
  9. Dutch Man of war. Latitude 36 N. 250 miles from Madeira May 27 1837. [Jellyfish].
  9v-10. Bass's Strait
  11. [Unfinished sketch]
  12. View from Vermont October 27 1837
  13. View at Vermont Oct 31 1837
  14. [blank]
  15. View at Vermont November 3d 1837
  16. [Trees]
  17. [Unfinished tree study]
  18. [Trees]
  19. View from my window at Ultimo December 5 1837
  19v. Sketched December 19 1837. [possibly Sydney Harbour, drawing is upside down in relation to others in the book]
  21. Darling Harbour Sketched from my window December 29 1837
  21v. Baby. No child of mine
  22. Ant's nest [and botanical sketches]
  23. [Unfinished sketch]
  24. View from my room window, Newington, 1838
  25. [Unfinished forest scene]
  26. Newington
  26v. [Studies of aborigines.] There is study entitled `arum'[lilies] at lower right.
  27. [Plant studies]
  28-29. [Sketch of huts]
  30. Sketched at Vermont, May 1st 1838
  30v. Executed by his loving wife
  31. Elephants ears
  32. The Cut Hills near Vermont, 1838
  32v. Maize
  33. Prickly pear
  33v-34. Mrs Macquarie's Seat. The drawing is upside down in relation to others in the volume.
  35. View from my window at Trevallyn, May 5th 1839
  36. Gardener's Cottage at Trevallyn (Paterson River, N.S.W.)
  37 [blank]
  38. Sherwood. Mr. Cr[...?]. [Notes on the drawing indicate errors in sizes of a tree and a shed]
  39. Belgrave (or) The Den of Lions
  40. Ecclestone [i.e. Eccleston]
  41. Orindinna Station. [A note at lower right of drawing reads] Gunya
  42. [Four profile studies]
  43. Cam-Yr-Allyn. [A note at lower centre reads] 6 windows
  44. Front view of Trevallyn House - from the opposite bank of the River Patterson, June 15th 1839
  45. Small. Iron Barks
  46. Side view of Trevallyn House, from half-way up the Vineyard Hill, June 20th 1839
  47-50. [blank]
  51. [Unfinished sketch]
  52. In nature herself ... (Walter Scott). Ultimo. [text only]
• General note
  
  Title taken from card catalogue entry
  Sketchbook attributed to Mrs. Manning by the previous owner, a member of the Manning family. Ten sketches are dated and thirty six titled. -- card catalogue entry
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823701
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bark huts & houses
  country scenes
  harbours
  huts
  maize
  plants
  trees
  
• Place
  Camyr Allyn (Allyn River, Gresford, N.S.W.)
  Gresford (N.S.W.)
  Newington (Silverwater, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Trevallyn (N.S.W.)
  Vermont Station (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE15392446

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