• Title
  Item 2: [Sketchbook], Sydney, May 4, 1841-[ca. 1857] / by Peter MacPherson
• Call number
  PXA 7187/Item 2
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  May 4, 1841-[ca. 1857]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9627623
• Physical Description
  1 sketchbook (28 drawings) - 23 x 29 cm. - pencil, ink wash
  
• Scope and Content
  1 sketchbook of 28 pencil and pencil ink wash drawings on 28 sheets with marbled paper covers and original binding. Signed and dated on inside front cover, May 4th 1841.
  
  Several of the drawings are titled and depict scenes in Sydney and England.
  
  An early drawing titled “Pinchgut Island Port Jackson” shows the partially levelled island with three huts perched on the highest point. Work of transforming Pinchgut into the fort that would eventually become Fort Denison commenced in mid-1841 and the huts were built to house the convicts working on the site.
  
  “Flagstaff Sydney” shows Fort Phillip situated on the Observatory Hill. Within the fort’s walls can be seen two flag staffs as well as the capped stump of Sydney’s first windmill and a cottage which may have been the signaller’s residence. Alongside the wall is the powder magazine designed by Francis Greenway.
  
  Another drawing depicts Mrs Macquarie’s Chair but is titled “Lady Macquarie’s Chair Sydney Domain”. There is a further inscription, "Be it thus recorded that this was drawn by P MacPherson an Australian Collegian June 10 1841".
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Inside front cover: 'Peter MacPherson, Australian College, Jamison Street, May 4th 1841, Sydney'.
• Date note
  
  Peter MacPherson was in England between 1845 and 1857. The drawings in England were probably done at this time.
• Subject
  Drawing, Australian--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Landscapes--England--Pictorial Works.
  Architecture--Sketch-books.
  
• Place
  Fort Denison (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Fort Philip (Observatory Hill, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Mrs Macquarie's Chair (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19973193

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