Volume 1: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop o...
Volume 1: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop o...
Volume 1: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1843-1844
About this item
Full title
Date
probably 1843-1844
Call Numbers
PXD 90
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (16 drawings) - 48.5 x 40.5 cm (mount) - pencil and watercolour
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Scope and Contents
Contents
CONTENTS:
1. Fern Valley, Cascades, 1843
2. Fern Valley, Norfolk Island
3. Light Wood Tree, Norfolk Island, 1844
4. Longridge, Norfolk Island
5. Cascade Settlement, Norfolk Island, 1844
6. Settlement from the Prisoners Gardens, Norfolk Island
7. Norfolk Island Settlement, 1844
8. Cape Raoul, V.D.L., 1844
9. Windemere,...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Volume 1: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1843-1844
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
Attributions / Conjectures
A number of sketches were possibly drawn by Anna Maria Nixon, nee Maconochie. Mrs Nixon was known to copy her husband's drawings -- Dictionary of Australian Artists / ed. Joan Kerr, entries under A.M. (p.488), Anna Maria Nixon (p.577) and Francis Russell Nixon (p.580).
Description source
Title of album on spine. Title and date of item on drawing. Some captions are partially obscured by the mounts.
Contextual Information
Source
Transferred from D 90, December 1996
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 90
Record Identifier
92ebLayY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92ebLayY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9654976
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