• Title
  Flood coming down the Macquarie, 13th February 1846 / Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
• Creator
  Thomas Mitchell, Sir, 1792-1855
• Call number
  DL Pd 719
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1846-1848
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  845862
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 17.2 x 11 cm - grey wash heightened with white
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned.
  Ink note on verso reads 'Original sketch frontispiece to Tropical Australia drawn by Sir T.L. Mitchell given to Emily Tenchet (?) by the sole surviving son N.B. Mitchell on 3rd January 1892 on the conditions that it will always continue an heirloom to some of the descendents of his talented father'.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attribution from note in ink in unknown hand on verso.
  Drawing appears to be the original of the below Journal's frontispiece, from which it has been titled.
• Date note
  
  Dated from year of expedition and date of publication of Mitchell's 'Journal of an expedition into the interior of Tropical Australia...', London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  rivers
  views
  floods
  
• Place
  Macquarie River (N.S.W.)
  Central Western Region (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8778667

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