John Arthur Guy : album of drawings, ca. 1859-1862
John Arthur Guy : album of drawings, ca. 1859-1862
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1859-1860, 1862
Call Numbers
PXA 513
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Watercolours and Drawings
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (20 watercolour, 3 pencil, 1 ink drawing) - 23.5 x 34.5 cm.
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
1-2. The Gap Sept. 18 1859 N.S.W.
3. [Harbour view with town in background, 1859]
4. Botany Bay & Bare Island, 1859
5-6. [River scenes, 1859]
7. Old Toms Hut, 1859
8. [River with steamboat and town in background]
9. [River with shipyards]
10. [Bush scene with rocks in foreground, 1859]
11. [Windmill], 1859. Possibly Gordon's...
Alternative Titles
Full title
John Arthur Guy : album of drawings, ca. 1859-1862
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Two folios (between pages 9 and 11) have been cut out of the sketchbook at an unknown date, before receipt by Mitchell Library.
The pencil sketches are unfinished. Two are executed on the interleaving paper and one is on the sketchbook paper between drawings 17 and 18.
"D.S. Mitchell" signature appears on front endpaper
Digital order no:Album ID : 1046089...
Signature / Inscriptions
Inside front cover, "J.A.G. / 290 George Strett / Sydney N.S.W."
Drawings, except 8, 9 and 18, are signed and dated.
Some drawings are titled on the reverse.
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907
Administrative / Biographical history
John Arthur Guy, house painter and photographer, was a son of John Waln Guy and Eliza Bottomley. He emigrated to Sydney from England around 1856 and opened a photographic gallery with his brother James two years later.
Reference:
The Dictionary of Australian Artists / Joan Kerr (Ed.) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 513
Record Identifier
1Jkm7VQY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1Jkm7VQY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
430321
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