Georgiana Lowe - album of drawings of New South Wales views, ca. 1842-1850
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Georgiana Lowe - album of drawings of New South Wales views, ca. 1842-1850
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SAFE/PXD 390
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YzOgKBA9
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Georgiana Lowe - album of drawings of New South Wales views, ca. 1842-1850
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Georgiana Lowe - album of drawings of New South Wales views, ca. 1842-1850
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1842-1850
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 390
Record Identifier
Formats
Pictures, Drawings and Watercolours
— Physical Description
Contents
1 album (ca. 125 drawings comprising 96 watercolour and 29 pencil drawings) - 59.6 x 43 x 6.2 cm.
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
When originally catalogued, the drawings were numbered according to the album page they appeared on, rather than a sequential individual number. Drawings with a sketch on the reverse have been renumbered.
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Access Conditions
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
1a. Banana [Tree] Sydney
1b. [Landscape watercolour]
2a. Zanthorrhaea / or Grass Tree / Nelson Bay / Sydney
2b. [unfinished pencil sketch]
3. Gum Tree / Sydney
4. Bamboo / Sydney
5. Native of S.En. Australia - method of ascending / Large Trees - when hunting the Opposum [i.e. Opossum] / Body hangs off .... / left arm ... / O.W.B....
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
Georgiana Lowe - album of drawings of New South Wales views, ca. 1842-1850
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
— NOTES
General note
When received by the Mitchell Library in 1958, the drawings were mounted in an atlas folio with a broken cover but were subsequently re-housed and repaired by Messrs. Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Further treatment occurred in 1995-1996 when SLNSW Preservation Branch rebound the album. Transferred from Mitchell Manuscripts (D 390) in 1991. The drawings a...
Signature / Inscriptions
Most drawings are titled on work at lower left or right, or below image on mount.
Only one drawing is signed.
Five drawings are dated 1843.
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Presented by Rear-Admiral R St. V Sherbrooke, 1958
Exhibited in
The work of art - Australian women writers and artists
The most useful Art: Architecture in Australia, 1788-1985
Undercurrents
Dockside : Sydney's working harbour, 1840-1875
Built for the bush : the green architecture of rural Australia
Lost Gardens
Women Transported : Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories
Identifiers
— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXD 390
Record Identifier
YzOgKBA9
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— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
440114
