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Title
Album : sketches in New South Wales, 1881-1886 / James A.C. Willis
Creator
James A. C. Willis
Call number
DL PX 67
Level of description
fonds
Date

1881-1886
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Watercolours
Reference code
866800
Issue Copy
Copy print : DL PX 67
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
Physical Description
31 watercolours (1 album) - various sizes
Scope and Content
DL PX 67

f.1 The Pine Mountain from Killimicat Hill on road from Tumut to Gundagai. Sunset. 1881
f.2 Murrumbidgee River at Kimo Station near Gundagai. 1881
f.3 All Saints Church Tumut, shewing Tumut River. 1881
f.4 Ruins of Mill destroyed by fire. Spring Flat near Gundagai. 1881
f.5 Kurrajong trees overlooking Valley of Spring Flat near Gundagai. 1881
f.6 Blowering Rocks. The Bogongs at sunset near Tumut. 1881
f.7 Town of Tumut looking east. 1881
f.8 Brubgle Bridge over Tumut River. 1881. Tarrabandra Flats
f.9 Tarrabandra Flats between Gundagai and Tumut. Evening 1881
f.10a Mouth of Hawkesbury River. Barrenjuey and Elliot Island. 1882
f.10b Bar Island Hawkesbury River near mouth of Berowra Creek 1882
f.11 Cave looking up Berowra Creek Hawkesbury River. 1882
f.12 Hawkesbury River. Par Mountain and Bar Island. 1882
f.13 Revetment of Great North Road south of Wiseman's Ferry Haewkesbury River. 1882 - Erected by convict labour under Sir Thomas Mitchell about 1835
f.14 Great North road 1/2 a mile north of Wiseman's Ferry. 1882
f.15 Banks of the Hawkesbury about 4 miles above Wiseman's Ferry. 1882
f.16 Hawkesbury River from " The Boxes " at Wiseman's Ferry. 1882 - Webb's Creek to the right. Showing also the Great North Road constructed by Sir Thomas Mitchell
f.17 Table Top Mountain Table Top Station about 11 miles from Albury 1885
f.18 Homestead. Table Top Station near Albury 1885
f.19 Distant view of Albury from Forest Hill. 1885
f.20 Murray River near Albury. Boundary of the Colonies of New South Wales and Victoria. 1883
f.21 The night Express crossing the Murray River near Albury 1883
f.22 "The Castle" Woronora River. Rocks about 70 feet high. 1884
f.23 "The Castle" from the Woronora River. 1884
f.24 The town of Yass from near Dr Campbell's house. 1884
f.25 The Murrumbidgee River near Taemas, about 12 miles from Yass. 1884
f.26 Lake Bathurst. 1885
f.27 Lake George, 1885
f.28 The Town of Mudgee from Bombaira Hill. 1886
f.29 "The Monarch of Menah" A Flooded Red Gum, Menah Flat 7 miles north of Mudgee. - Presumed to be some centuries old. It was an old and vigorous tree when the first settlers in the district camped beneath it. 50 feet in girth a yard from the ground and 20 feet through. 1886
f.30 On House Creek about 3 miles from Wodonga. Colony of Victoria 1885
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Finding Aids
Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
Description source

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

Keyword subject:

All Saints Church (Tumut, N.S.W.)
Lake Bathurst (N.S.W.)
Lake George (N.S.W.)
Pine Mountain (N.S.W.)
Spring Flat (N.S.W.)
Tarrabandra Flats (N.S.W.)
Signatures / Inscriptions

Two of the sketches are signed; all are dated and titled.
Subject
Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
Topic
landscapes (views)
churches
rivers
mountains
rocks (landscape)
bridges
botany
mills
creeks
roads & streets
islands
railways
homesteads
lakes
red gums
Place
Tumut River (N.S.W.)
Bogong Mountains (N.S.W.)
Brungle Reserve (Tumut River, N.S.W.)
Kurrajong (N.S.W.)
Murrumbidgee River (N.S.W. and A.C.T.)
Gundagai (N.S.W.)
Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.)
Berowra Creek (N.S.W.)
Great North Road (Sydney)
Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.)
Woronora River (N.S.W.)
Yass (N.S.W.)
Albury (N.S.W.)
Tabletop Mountain
Yamba (N.S.W.)
Mudgee (N.S.W.)
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