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Title
Volume 1: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Anna Maria Nixon, probably 1843-1844
Call number
PXD 90
Level of description
item
Date

probably 1843-1844
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
9654976
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album (16 drawings) - 48.5 x 40.5 cm (mount) - pencil and watercolour
Scope and Content
1. Fern Valley, Cascades, 1843
2. Fern Valley, Norfolk Island
3. Light wood tree, Norfolk Island, 1844
4. Longridge, Norfolk Island
5. Cascade settlement, Norfolk Island, 1844
6. Settlement from the prisoners gardens, Norfolk Island
7. Norfolk Island settlement, 1844
8. Cape Raoul, Van Diemen's Land, 1844
9. Windemere, Van Diemen's Land
10. Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, from the Westbury Road ... (?)
11. Arthur's Head, Tasman's Peninsula, Van Diemen's Land
12. Leighton, Van Diemen's Land
13. Longford
14. [Longford]
15. Junction of the South Esk and Lake River near Longford
16. Longford
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.
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
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