• Title
  Volume 3: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Anna Maria Nixon, probably 1840s
• Call number
  PXD 92
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  probably 1840s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  1120841
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (17 drawings) - 48.5 x 40.5 cm (mount) - pencil and watercolour
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Salt-Water-River [Saltwater River], 1846
  2. Betsey Island from Mount Communication, 1846
  3. Wedge Island from Mount Commun[ication], 1846
  4. F.R.T., Mines, 'Francis Pursel Tasmania - Bp Nixon' beneath drawing, 24 January 1846
  5. The Mines, 28 January 1846
  6. The Terra... Min...
  7. Com[m]issariat store, coal mine, April 184?
  8. The Mines, 'E. was Magistrate at the Mines - a Prison Station on Tasmans Peninsular. [...?] bungalow' beneath drawing, 18 June 1846
  9. Mines, coal jetty, 1846
  10. Coal jetty, The Mines, 22 September 1846
  11. Battery Point, Hobart Town, 1846
  12. Rest-down, near Hobart Town, 15 February 1848
  13. Long Point Lagoon, April 1847
  14. Long Point, 5 August 1846
  15. Jetty, Eagle Hawk Neck, 21 October 184?
  16. Chain of dogs, Eagle Hawk Neck, 22 October 1846
  17. Flinders Island
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title and date of item on drawing. Some captions are partially obscured by the mounts.
• General note
  
  Title of album on spine contains former attribution to Miss Maconochie.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1122642
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  A number of sketches were possibly drawn by Anna Maria Nixon. Mrs Nixon was known to copy her husband's drawings -- Dictionary of Australian Artists / ed. Joan Kerr, entries under A.M. (p.488), Anna Maria Nixon (p.577) and Francis Russell Nixon (p.580).
  
  Formerly attributed to Miss Maconochie by Sir William Dixson. Anna Maria was the daughter of Charles Woodcock, and not Alexander Maconochie (Brown, T. & Kerr, J. 1995. Anna Maria Nixon. Design & Art Australia Online).
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Nixon, Francis-Russell, 1803-1879
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE835648

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