George Milner Stephen and Mary Stephen (nee Hindmarsh) album of sketches and drawings
George Milner Stephen and Mary Stephen (nee Hindmarsh) album of sketches and drawings
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1832-1850s
Call Numbers
PXE 822
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
Albums - 30 x 35 cm - in black leather elaborately blind-embossed cover, also with gilt embossing at corners and edges, all edges gilt; elaborate gilt-embossed borders on front and back endpapers, which are covered in crimson watered taffeta - 1 scrapbook of 57 leaves
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The album consists of pictures, poems and miscellaneous ephemera. It appears to have been started by George Milner Stephen, and given to his wife Mary (nee Hindmarsh, daughter of the Governor of South Australia, 1836-38) at the time of their marriage in July 1840. George Stephen inscribed some of the drawings, either with his own initials 'GMS', or...
Alternative Titles
Full title
George Milner Stephen and Mary Stephen (nee Hindmarsh) album of sketches and drawings
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
See also other albums and sketchbooks with artworks by George and Mary Stephen and other members of the Stephen and Wilkinson families. Located in the Mitchell Library Pictures Collection (refs. PXA 6921, PXA 6922, PXA 6923)
Signature / Inscriptions
Inscribed in ink on front flyleaf 'Geo M Stephen 1st February 1832.-' / 'Mary [Hindmarsh] from George. 9 July '40 [the year of their marriage].
Also signed in ink on same page upper right 'Florence M.H. Wilkinson'; and the same hand lower right in pencil 'For Zelina [Zelma?]'
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased November 1988. The purchase was noted in The Weekend Australian Financial Review, 14 November 1998, the Fin, p. 15
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 822
Record Identifier
16A0EOgn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16A0EOgn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
402065
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