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Album of drawings and photographs, including watercolour views of St Heliers, Muswellbrook, N.S.W.,...

Album of drawings and photographs, including watercolour views of St Heliers, Muswellbrook, N.S.W.,...

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Album of drawings and photographs, including watercolour views of St Heliers, Muswellbrook, N.S.W., ca. 1830-1860 / drawings chiefly by Christiana Susan Dumaresq and photographs attributed to Matthew Fortescue Moresby

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Full title

Album of drawings and photographs, including watercolour views of St Heliers, Muswellbrook, N.S.W., ca. 1830-1860 / drawings chiefly by Christiana Susan Dumaresq and photographs attributed to Matthew Fortescue Moresby

Date

ca. 1830-1860

Call Numbers

PXB 482

Record Identifier

1xqZPdAY

Reference Code

913067
Physical Description

Contents

9 watercolours

11 drawings - pencil

15 photographs - mainly albumen

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

Access and use

Copying Conditions

Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955

Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Physical Access Conditions

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Comprises an album (approx. 20.0 x 27.0 x 2.0 cm) containing 11 pencil sketches and 9 watercolours, ca. 1830-1850, and 15 photographic prints by Matthew Fortescue Moresby, ca. 1856-1860 (mostly albumen, possibly some of prints are salt prints)

1. The room with the Portrait! - a loose pencil sketch showing a man entering a room with a portrai...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Album of drawings and photographs, including watercolour views of St Heliers, Muswellbrook, N.S.W., ca. 1830-1860 / drawings chiefly by Christiana Susan Dumaresq and photographs attributed to Matthew Fortescue Moresby

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 1161451

Signature / Inscriptions

Front fly leaf inscribed in ink 'Christiana Susan Dumaresq, 13th October 1830'

Attributions / Conjectures

Items 4 to 7 attributed to Christiana Susan Dumaresq by Bonhams. Items 16 and 17 are in a different style to the views of St Heliers and attributed by Bonhams as possibly being by one of her daughters.

Items 18 and 19 titled, dated and attributed to circle of Conrad Martens by Bonhams.

All photographs dated and attributed to Matthew...

Conservation note

Some photographs are faded

Description source

Some drawings titled and dated

Object History

By descent through the family of Rear Admiral John Saumarez Dumaresq CB, CVO (1873-1922), grandson of the artist.

Contextual Information

Source

Purchased from Bonhams, Travel and Exploration, Sale 17849, 15 September 2010, Lot 16

Administrative / Biographical history

Christiana Susan Dumaresq (nee McLeay) (d. 1868) was the second daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth McLeay. Alexander McLeay was appointed Colonial Secretary of N.S.W. in June 1825, arriving with his family in Sydney in January 1826. Christiana married William John Dumaresq (1793-1868) in Sydney on 15 October 1830. They had two sons and two daughte...

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

PXB 482

Record Identifier

1xqZPdAY

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1xqZPdAY

Other Identifiers

Reference code

913067

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