Photographs, postcards, drawings and lock of hair relating to the Oxley family and lithographs / Sam...
Photographs, postcards, drawings and lock of hair relating to the Oxley family and lithographs / Samuel Thomas Gill
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1810-1977
Call Numbers
PXD 1220 , R 1187
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Photographs, Prints, Drawings and Objects
Physical Description
Contents
3 prints (mounted on 1 board) - 23.0 x 35.5 cm (mount) - black & white
1 album (137 photographs) - 23.5 x 28.5 cm - gelatin silver
1 lock of hair
8 ephemera items (postcards) - 9.0 x 14 cm (or smaller) - black & white
1 photograph - 32.0 x 23.9 cm (in oval mount) - gelatin silver reproduction, hand-coloured
1 photograph - 30.6 x 24.2 cm (in oval mount) - gelatin silver reproduction, hand-coloured
1 drawing - 43.2 x 31.0 cm - watercolour
50 prints - 20.0 x 27.5 cm (or smaller) - lithographs
4 prints (in one mount) - 24.0 x 14.3 cm - coloured reproduction
26 photographs - 28.0 x 17.2 cm (or smaller) - albumen, gelatin silver
3 drawings - 6.3 x 9.4 cm (or smaller) - hand-coloured
1 print - 15.0 x 19.2 cm (image), 24.5 x 31.0 cm (mount) - reproduction
1 print - 14.0 x 17.9 cm (image), 24.5 x 31.0 cm (mount) - reproduction
1 print - 16.9 x 13.9 cm - black & white
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Physical Access Conditions
Access to this pictures collection via appointment only. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian : R 1187
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Includes:
Unidentified portrait of man [watercolour reproduction]
Unidentified portrait of woman with white headress in oval gold mount [gelatin silver copy print of photograph, hand-coloured]
Portrait of John Oxley in oval gold mount [gelatin silver copy print of original watercolour, hand-coloured]
Print of original w...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photographs, postcards, drawings and lock of hair relating to the Oxley family and lithographs / Samuel Thomas Gill
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Backing to photograph - separated from unknown photograph - inscribed 'Arthur Moreton Oxley - [Emiline?] Laura Oxley nee Martin - Married April 14th 1888 - Photo taken April 14th 1938'
See related material at MIN 306
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5745 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13
Contextual Information
Source
Pic.Acc.5745
Administrative / Biographical history
In a letter written by Elizabeth Twells (nee Dixon) to her cousin John Norton Oxley (the explorer’s son) titled ‘Things my mother told me’, she talks about their mutual grandmother Isabella Oxley (nee Molesworth). It was written somewhere about 1870-1890. Elizabeth says ‘I send you a copy’ of the miniature of their grandmother Isabella Oxley (nee...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 1220 , R 1187
Record Identifier
1DrmMEg9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1DrmMEg9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
909911
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