Sketchbook of pencil drawings by Charles H. Fitzgerald of Maitland and Muswellbrook, NSW, 1833-1874

PXA 1504

fonds

1833-1874

Graphic Materials, Drawings

914143

2 drawings - 24 x 33 cm - pencil on paper
1 sketchbook (12 pencil drawings) - 23.5 x 30.5 cm - embossed paper cover, interleaved

14 pencil drawings of various views of the Maitland and Muswellbrook precinct, drawn between 1833 and 1874.

Sketchbook album
1. 'Maitland. June 1870' (family outside house)
2. 'Muswellbrook. February 1872' (view of suspension bridge across river)
3. 'Muswellbrook. April 1872' (Hunters under Boab tree near riverside)
4. 'Muswellbrook. February 1872' (bridled horse bust)
5. 'Muswellbrook. May 1872' (train tunnel before mountain ranges)
6. 'Muswellbrook. March 1872' (bridled horse bust)
7. 'Summer Flowers' S. Bethane - on verso (six women and a young girl outdoors)
8. Early stage of unfinished sketch
9. 'Maitland. August 30th, 1872' (Chapel on hillside)
10.'East Maitland. 4th January, 1874' (man on wooden bridge)
11.'East Maitland 4th January, 1874' (man outside large stone house)
12. Early stage of unfinished sketch

Single drawings
13. 'I.S. February 28th, 1833' (stone bridge with township in background through trees)
14. 'September 2nd-7th? 1857' (view from road of stone house)

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Signed 'C.H.F.C.' next to date in bottom right-hand corner.