Item 06: Natural history and botanical drawings, ca. 1849-1872 / [attributed to Louisa Atkinson]

Atkinson and Cosh family pictorial material, ca. 1842-1973

The collection includes views of Oldbury, Sutton Forest, Mount Keira coal mines, studies of Australian animals and birds, and botanical drawings.

Views
1. Oldbury Mill. "Emily' is written in pencil on lower right.
2. View of Oldbury from Dairy Hill [Mt Gingenbullen]
3. Casuarina stricta Concord. Augst llth.
4. [Rocky waterhole]
5. A duplicate scene is "Coral lus. Syd. News 14/4/1855 Louisa Atkinson. c.1855. [on reverse in donor's hand]
6. Entrance to old shaft (on reverse in donor's hand) .... undoubtedly Mt Keira Mine, 1855.
7. Coal Mines Mount Keira
8. [Fern gully and stream - Sepia photograph of original pen & ink sketch]
9. [River - Sepia photograph of original pen & ink sketch]
10. [Shooting party with flying foxes - sepia photograph of original pen & ink sketch]
11. [Sydney Harbour, possibly]
12. Murphy [Portrait of a girl] 1854
13. [Palm tree]
14. Revd D Macdonald D.D.
15. [Fenced enclosure and cattle trough]
16. [Sydney Heads]

Animals
17. Flying Squirrel. Plate 6.
18. [Hopping mouse] [on reverse] Plate 14
19. Porcupine [on reverse]. Plate 14.
20. Ecihen [i.e. Echidna, on reverse]  Plate 18.
21. Native Cat [on reverse] Plate 19
22. Ringtailed Opossum [on reverse]  Plate 23
23. Bandicoot [on reverse] Plate 24
24. [Koala]
25. Petrogale penicillata [Rock Wallabies]
26. Bauda Macropus ruficollis.  Plate 30
27. [Otter, possibly?]

Insects, birds
28. [Dragon fly]
29. [Pigeon with manuscript note on reverse] 1849
30. [Nesting birds, with pencil sketch of passenger coach on reverse]
31. [Fighting birds, with pencil notes]
32. [Bird]
33. Elanus Notatus - Black shouldered Kite. Frith - High Country Plate VII. [on reverse in donor's hand]
34. [Hawk, possibly?]
35. [Crow]
36. [Swallows with nest]
37. [Nesting birds, with sketch of platypus on reverse]
38. [Duck, with pencil notes]
39. [Birds nests]
40. [Parrots]
41. Platycercus Barvardi [parrot]
42. [Parrots]
43. [Parrot]
44. [Pencil note in donor's hand on fragment of paper watermarked '1860']
45. [Honeyeater]
46. Pteloris Victoria Gould
47. Miss Atkinson's drawing [and in donor's hand] Charlotte Elizabeth? [on reverse]
48. Apiosmictus scapulatus. Plate 6
49. Trichoglossus Swainsonii Plate 8
50. Euphema pulchella. Plate 9
51. Ardea pacifica Lath. Plate 14...
52. Plate 19. Anas superciliosa Gmel
53. Phalacrocora melasleucas Plate 23

Botanical drawings
54. Chiloglottis oiphylla
55. [Bouquet of flowers identified by Rachel Roxburgh as tetratheca, solanum, small white orchid, yellow pea flower. On the reverse is an inscription in the donor's hand -] "Atkinson's drawing / Probably Charlotte Elizabeth"
56. [Flowers with botanical footnotes]
57. [Two orchid plants]
58. Lehmannia nerifolia? Pittosporacae
59. [Pea flower]
60. Travellers Grass Arum family
61. [Pea flower]
62. [Cactus flower]
63. [Passion fruit flowers]

Item 06: Natural history and botanical drawings, ca. 1849-1872 / [attributed to Louisa Atkinson]

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