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Print
1000053
  • Title
    My sketch book, [ca. 1859-ca. 1861] / Frank Lea Smyth
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXB 766
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    [ca. 1859-ca. 1861]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    1000053
  • Physical Description
    1 sketchbook (37 drawings, 5 photographs) - 16 x 10 cm (sketchbook), 6 x 8 cm and smaller (photographs) - 136 pages, pencil and ink, calotypes
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Fank Lea Smyth (1851-1922), son of Samuel Hodgson Smyth (1807-1889) of Ashfield Park, was an Oxford educated barrister who practised before the supreme court of New South Wales.
  • Scope and Content
    Small red sketchbook bound in limp morocco with gilt rule, cover stamped in gilt ‘My sketch book / Frank Lea Smyth’. Marbled endpapers with bookplate of G. & N. Ingleton in front cover, and Ingleton Catalogue stamp on last page.

    Sketchbook contains:
    5 calotype photographic prints showing portraits of two men and two women in formal clothing, and Ashfield Park homestead.
    37 drawings, in pencil, and ink, mostly caricatures, with the artist’s handwritten captions.
    Drawings include eight ink sketches of ‘A cricket match’ depicting an APCC [Ashfield Park Cricket Club] match.
    Other subjects include: studies for portraits of ‘Dobbs’, 'Young Dare’, and ‘E. L. Esq., an elegant gentleman’, and Charles James Fox.
    Sketchbook also contains pressed flower.
    Some drawings are pasted in to sketchbook.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    An entry for this sketchbook appears in: A catalogue of select books from the Ingleton Collection / [compiled and annotated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton]. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, [1977]. Entry no. 14267.
  • Conservation note

    4.5 cm binding cover ripped from top of spine. Some pages have been razored from sketchbook.
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