• Title
  Tom Thumbs Lagoon, New South Wales / J. S. Prout
• Creator
  John Skinner Prout, 1805-1876
• Call number
  SSV*/Sp Coll/Prout/12
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  between 1874 and 1876
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  457764
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - 11.5 x 18.3 cm - engraving
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Skinner Prout, (1805-1876), artist, was born on 19 December 1805 at Plymouth, England. He arrived with his wife and seven children in Sydney on 14 December, 1840. He brought a complete lithographic printing press with him, and in early 1841 he started producing lithographed versions of his drawings of Sydney. In July of 1841, Prout went on one of four sketching trips, beyond Sydney, which he undertook while living in New South Wales. Travelling to Wollongong from Sydney by steamer, he toured the surrounding countryside, including Mt. Keira, Tom Thumb's Lagoon, and Lake Illawarra, before continuing south down the coast to Broulee, 80 miles south of Sydney. Sources: Skinner Prout in Australia, 1840-48 by Tony Brown. ML Q759.994/53. Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This image appeared in "Australia", by Edwin Carton Booth, illustrated with drawings by Skinner Prout, etc. London: Virtue, 1873-1876, vol. II, p. 149. Date of work taken from publisher information of book. ML DSM/Q980.1/46A1 v.1-2. A description of the image is given on p. 150: "Tom Thumb's Lagoon is a small inlet of the sea, and is a thoroughly characteristic bit of Australian scenery. The forests are not so dense now as when the sketch was taken, and the blackfellow, with his lubra and piccaninny, have become things of the past ; but the high, precipitous mount, the gently rising hills, and far-spreading vales remain, and all the old beauty remains with them still".
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Printed underneath print: S. Prout [and] E. Brandard. Title centred below image, with publisher below title: London, Virtue.
• Name
  Brandard, Edward Paxman, 1819-1898
  Prout, John Skinner
  
• Subject
  Women, Aboriginal Australian.
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  lagoons
  mountain ranges
  
• Place
  Mount Kembla (N.S.W.)
  Tom Thumbs Lagoon
  Wollongong Region (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19510470

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