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Title
'Wanted, a Governess' in Australia; 'Wanted a Governess' in England, ca. 1850-1854 / Florence Claxton
Creator
Florence Claxton
Call number
V*/Cart/37a
V*/Cart/37b
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1850-1854
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
836329
Physical Description
2 drawings - 14 x 18.8 cm and 14 x 19.6 cm; laid on 2 pages, 20 x 24.6 cm and 20 x 24.5 cm - pencil
Finding Aids
Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 758 -
Description source

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
General note

The sketches form a pair; the pages on which the sketches are pasted were originally sewn into a volume.
Digital order no:Album ID : 997294
Signatures / Inscriptions

Each sketch is signed at lower right.
Each sketch is titled in ink on page at upper centre.
Further inscription on page beneath first sketch: (overworked wife to settler reading English NewsP) 'Distressed Governesses indeed - oh don't tell me -/ I'd find plenty for em to do'.
Further inscription on page beneath second sketch: (Jeames [?] with highbred indifference) 'Please yer La'ship were quite full up to the Breakfast room/ and lib'ry and theres more young wimmin in the 'All'
Date note

Dated approximately from the Claxton family's period in Australia. Notes on dating are included in PXn 758
Subject
Art, Colonial--Australia.
Caricatures and cartoons--Australia.
Topic
cartoons
governesses
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