• Title
  Salisbury Court and Coombing T. Icely’s Esq M.C. [ca. 1846] / drawn by G.C. Mundy
• Creator
  Godfrey Charles Mundy, 1804-1860
• Call number
  SV/290
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1846]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1043502
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 drawings - 11.2 x 17.6 cm and 12.8 x 20.5 cm, on album sheet 29.3 x 24.0 cm - ink
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Godfrey Charles Mundy (1804-1860), sketcher, soldier and author, served in India and Canada before arriving in New South Wales in 1846 aboard the Agincourt to take up the position of deputy adjutant-general of the military forces in the Australian colonies. His cousin was the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir Charles Fitzroy, whom Mundy accompanied on tours around NSW. Mundy published 'Pen and Pencil Sketches, being the Journal of a Tour of India' (London, 1832). His Australasian excursions through NSW, Victoria and Tasmania resulted in the publication of 'Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies, with a Glimpse of the Gold Fields' (3 vols, London, 1852). He illustrated this book with 15 lithographic plates; landscapes and scenes engraved by W.L. Walton from his own sketches and those by his wife, Louisa Mundy. He left Australia in 1851 and died in London in 1860.
  
  Salisbury Court was the residence of Matthew Henry Marsh (1810-1881), a barrister, pastoralist and parliamentarian. He owned extensive land in NSW including Salisbury Plains, New England, where his home was completed in 1846. Conrad Martens also made sketches of this residence.
  
  Coombing Park estate was established in 1831 by Thomas Icely (1797-1874), famed NSW landowner and stockbreeder. Godfrey visited him in 1846 and wrote of him: 'the great graziers and even the wealthiest landed proprietors of the Old Country may hide their diminished heads when compared with [Icely] in point of territory, stock, and numbers of persons employed'. William Lawson, (son of William Lawson, an ensign in the New South Wales Corps and explorer), married his Icely’s daughter Caroline on 10 May 1832 in Bathurst, New South Wales. He left this estate in 1862.
  
  References:
  Design and Art Australia Online
  http://www.daao.org.au/ Accessed June 12, 2013
  Australian Dictionary of Biography
  http://www.adb.anu.edu.au/ Accessed June 13, 2013
• Scope and Content
  a. 'Salisbury Court' depicts the house on Salisbury Plain, surrounded by fence, with a tree in the foreground and hill in the background
  b. 'Coombing T. Icley's Esq. M.C.' depicts the property, the house situated on the estate landscape, with fences, trees and some cattle in a distant paddock. Unfinished pencil drawing on verso, view of Icely's house.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1045462
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Both sketches are titled at top of image, pencil 'By G.C. Mundy' on album sheet below drawings, and pen writing on back of album sheet 'Gen'l Munday was Governor of Jersey Is. at time of death (1860). Ickleton ? Manor, Cambridgeshire, was family home & the scrap book was sold when furnishings of Manor were sold. All other pages have been sold - went to U.S., probably'
• Subject
  Artists--Australia--19th century.
  Artists--New South Wales.
  Real property--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  housing estates
  paddocks
  houses
  fences
  bush life
  
• Place
  Coombing Park (Carcoar, N.S.W.)
  Salisbury (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3300627

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