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Item 4: Sketchbook comprising mainly natural history drawings / Louisa Calvert (nee Atkinson)

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    Item 4: Sketchbook comprising mainly natural history drawings / Louisa Calvert (nee Atkinson)

    Call numbers

    PXA 4499

    Record identifier

    1Dr4xKE9

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1Dr4xKE9

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    Item 4: Sketchbook comprising mainly natural history drawings / Louisa Calvert (nee Atkinson)

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    Item 4: Sketchbook comprising mainly natural history drawings / Louisa Calvert (nee Atkinson)

    Full title

    Item 4: Sketchbook comprising mainly natural history drawings / Louisa Calvert (nee Atkinson)

    Date

    1855-1872

    Call Numbers

    PXA 4499

    Record Identifier

    1Dr4xKE9

    Formats

    Pictures and Drawings

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    1 sketchbook (180 pages) - 27.7 x 19.2 x 1.3 cm - quarter bound on marbled boards, and with marbled edges

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Item

    Access and use

    Copying Conditions

    Out of copyright

    Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

    Physical Access Conditions

    Access to this pictures collection via appointment only. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian

    Issue Copy

    Partly Digitised : 10 pages only selected for digitisation

    Microfilm : CY 1937, frames 1-98

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Oldbury (Moss Vale, N.S.W.) Birds--Pictorial works. Ornithological illustration.

    More information

    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    Sketchbook comprises bird drawings, botanical studies, insect studies, a fine drawing of a lobster, drawings of Atkinson's family home at Oldbury, near Sutton Forrest, and copies of European art works. The majority of the drawings are in watercolour, but there are also a number of pen and ink drawings.

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    Item 4: Sketchbook comprising mainly natural history drawings / Louisa Calvert (nee Atkinson)

    — NOTES

    General note

    Digital order no:Album ID : 982612

    Signature / Inscriptions

    Inscribed on fly leaf in pencil "Louisa Snowden A. Calvert."
    Many of the drawings are annotated

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Presented by Miss Janet Cosh, Nov 1961

    Exhibited in

    The work of art - Australian women writers and artists

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    PXA 4499

    Record Identifier

    1Dr4xKE9

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1Dr4xKE9

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    80389

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