Full title: Georgiana Lowe - album of drawings of New South Wales views, ca. 1842-1850

Author/creator: Brierly, Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.), 1817-1894, Sherbrooke, Georgiana Lowe, Viscountess, ca. 1813-1884.

Date: ca. 1842-1850.

Call Numbers: SAFE/PXD 390

Record Identifier: YzOgKBA9

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Formats: Pictures, Drawings, Watercolours

Contents: 1 album (ca. 125 drawings comprising 96 watercolour and 29 pencil drawings) - 59.6 x 43 x 6.2 cm.

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Notes: 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 are dated from the period the Lowe's were in Australia, from 1842-1850. Many pages house several drawings. Nelson's Bay is now called Bronte. No. 5 is titled on mount in Georgiana Lowe's hand, ""Native climbing a gum tree"" No. 72b has been identified as Tempe House after comparison with Elyard, Tempe and Harris (Mitchell Library SSV/1A). Nos. 14a, 16a, 19c, 25, 36a, 40c, 50b, 60c were missing when received in 1959. The donor, Rear-Admiral Sherbrooke, is the great-great-grand nephew of Georgiana and Robert Lowe. -- Reference: Sydney Morning Herald, 20 May 1858. Digital order no:Album ID : 846166

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MMS ID: 110324421