• Title
  Sketchbook: Norfolk Island, New South Wales and South African scenes, 1832-1838?
• Creator
  George Washington Walker, 1800-1859
• Call number
  DL PXX 28
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1832-1838?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  877566
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : DL PXX 28
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 sketchbook (20 drawings) - various sizes - pencil
  
• Scope and Content
  DL PXX 28
  
  F.1 Government House & Military Barracks Norfolk Island 4th mo [sic] : 1835 indicates drawings which have been separately catalogued
  F.2 Phillip Island from Norfolk Island indicates drawings which have been separately catalogued
  F.3a Elim from the Mission House
  F.3b near Droogboem. Zondereind
  F.4a Byron Bay. Indicates drawings which have been separately catalogued
  F.4b Entrance to Moreton Bay from South East. Indicates drawings which have been separately catalogued
  F.5 Views of Macquarie Harbour, from the Tamar, off Wellington Head 7 of 7 mo : 1832. Indicates drawings which have been separately catalogued
  F.6 Entrance to Macquarie as seen from the Tamar when anchored off Wellington Head. Indicates drawings which have been separately catalogued
  F.7 On the Zondereind between Swellendam & Droogboem 17 / 10 mo : 1838
  F.8 Vonkers Fontein Andries in South Africa
  F.9 Two scenes, possibly in South Africa
  F.10 Unfinished scene
  F.11 Two scenes, possibly in South Africa
  F.12 Two scenes, possibly in South Africa
  F.13 Two scenes, possibly in South Africa
  F.14 Scene, possibly in South Africa
  F.15 Unfinished scene
  Inside back cover
  Two photographs of Norfolk Island
  
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: 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, 2009-2010
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  None of the drawings are signed, three are dated and eight are titled. A pencil note inside the front cover reads 'G. W. Walker's sketchbook'
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  official residences
  barracks
  
• Place
  Norfolk Island
  Government House (Norfolk Island)
  Phillip Island
  Cape Byron (N.S.W.)
  Moreton Bay (Qld.)
  Macquarie Harbour (Tas.)
  South Africa
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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