Sketches and watercolours made by the first Lord Montagu of Beaulieu on a visit to Australia and the Pacific, December 1852-November 1853 / Henry Scott Montagu, 1st baron

SSV*/Sp Coll/Gen/22

fonds

No date

Graphic Materials, Prints

845964

Microfilm : MAV/FM3/652
Microfilm : MAV/FM3/651

63 photomechanical prints - 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. - photocopies

63 photocopies of originals, twelve of which are now in the Dixson Galleries and one in the Mitchell Library.

The photocopies include Lord Henry Scott's 'Sydney Harbour', presented to the Mitchell Library by Lady Forster in 1925.
They are contact prints and enlargements made from a 35 mm negative held by Lord Montagu except for eight which are not photographed by him. The negative of these eight are at MAV/FM3/651.

Contents list filed with collection.

Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 3 -

The originals were on loan from the 3rd Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in February 1964 and were then exhibited in the Dixson Galleries. Twelve were subsequently purchased for the Dixson Galleries and one presented to the Mitchell Library.

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

Most are titled on the front and some are titled from old mounts now discarded, but filmed at MAV/FM3/652.

Itinerary of the Voyage compiled in the Mitchell Library from newspaper cuttings and letters by Henry Stobart to his mother (MLMSS 868) are at PXn 3.

Keyword subject:

Cunningham's Gap (Qld.)
Early Bird (Ship)
Port Resolution, Tanna (New Hebrides)
Stradbroke Island (Qld.)

Some of the originals are signed 'HS'.

Originals may be by the Reverend Henry Stobart who accompanied Lord Henry Scott; compared with his letters from Australia in the Mitchell Library.

Four of the watercolours are very similar in style to paintings in the Mitchell Library and Dixson Library by Conrad Martens. For titles of these see nos. 56, 58-60 on contents list filed with the photocopies.