Full title: [Sketches in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Norfolk Island, ca. 1841-1847] / by John Skinner Prout

Author/creator: Prout, John Skinner, 1805-1876, Prout, John Skinner, 1805-1876.

Date: ca. 1841-1847.

Call Numbers: PXD 75

Record Identifier: nZNvzvQn

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Formats: Pictures, Drawings

Contents: Drawings - 37.5 x 40.5 or smaller - 20 watercolour, 2 pencil sketches

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Notes: No dates on works. Date estimated from information provided in the Mitchell Library catalogue card The sketches were later published as engravings in: Tasmania illustrated. Vol. I / by J.S. Prout. Hobart Town : [s.n.], 1844.; Australia / by Edwin Carton Booth ; illustrated with drawings by Skinner Prout, N. Chevalier, London : Virtue & Co., [1874-1876?]. Sydney Illustrated by J.S. Prout; with letter press description by J. Rae. Sydney : Tyrrell, [1948]. The following sketches are from the David Scott Mitchell Collection. Provenance of item derived from a list of material that was deposited with the National Art Gallery (Art Gallery of N.S.W.), prior to the Mitchell Library's opening in 1910. [5.] Lake Illawarra -- [6.] Near Newcastle on the Hunter River -- [7.] South Bank of the Yarra, River -- [11.] Valley of Ferns, Hobarton -- [14.] Willoughby Falls -- [15.] Barbarossa Ranges -- [17.] [Waterfall] -- [18.] [Australian Shepherd's Hut] -- [22.] [Coast near Sydney] The following sketches are missing from the collection: [4.] Snails Bay -- [8.] On the Plenty, near Melbourne -- [10.] Hobarton, V.D.L. from Mount Wilson -- [11.] Valley of Ferns, Hobarton Image no. 18, 'Australian shepherd's hut', also titled 'Settler's hut interior', shows a poster on left of picture referring to the Queen's visit to Sir Robert Peel at Drayton Manor. This took place in December, 1843 (see Illustrated London News, 2 Dec. 1843). A similar poster is shown in a similar view published in that newspaper in March 1849. Source: Mitchell Picture card catalogue. Digital order no:Album ID : 972905

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