Collection : sketches of expedition into Australia Felix, 1836 / Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell
Collection : sketches of expedition into Australia Felix, 1836 / Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell
Collection : sketches of expedition into Australia Felix, 1836 / Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1836
Call Numbers
DL PXX 22
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
10 drawings - various sizes
5 prints - various sizes - proof engravings
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
The collection contains drawings done during Mitchell's third expedition which, with the exception of the five proofs, appear to be studies for the reproductions in the volume cited below.
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Copy print : DL PXX 22
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
Finding aids
Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Comprises portfolio of ten drawings and five prints:
F.1 Tanandurey [sic] and her daughter Ballandella - the widow
F.2 An old thief at Benanee Lake
F.3 John Piper alias " Jemmy " conqueror of the Interior
F.4 Charopus Ecaudatus or the Tailless Charopus
F.5 Back water of the Murray
F.6 Kangaroo mouse - from Ready Plains 21 June...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Collection : sketches of expedition into Australia Felix, 1836 / Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Keyword subject;
Australia Felix
Signature / Inscriptions
None of the drawings are signed, two are dated and eight titled.
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Some of the drawings have been dated and titled by comparison with reproductions in Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell's 'Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia...London, T. & W. Boone, 1839, vol.2.
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952
Exhibited in
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL PXX 22
Record Identifier
1bGdkPlY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGdkPlY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
845781
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