Item 05: Jane Emily Atkinson album of watercolours and drawings, Decr. 28th 1848 / drawings attribut...
Item 05: Jane Emily Atkinson album of watercolours and drawings, Decr. 28th 1848 / drawings attributed to Charlotte Atkinson
About this item
Full title
Date
Decr. 28th 1848
Call Numbers
PXA 579
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 album of watercolours, ink, and pencil drawings (84 pages, with marbled covers and endpapers) - 23.1 x 19.1 cm.
4 drawings - 33.3 x 30.5 cm. or smaller - watercolour, pencil, and ink
Other Descriptions
Level of description
File
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Album
Contains miscellaneous drawings. Some of the subjects include sentimental genre scenes, a rowing boat with crew on the Glenelg River (S.A.), Wellington Caves (N.S.W.), portraits, hunting of lions, bison and buffalo, landscapes of Africa and American views, and animals, plants, and insects.
The album includes a portrait of a young wo...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 05: Jane Emily Atkinson album of watercolours and drawings, Decr. 28th 1848 / drawings attributed to Charlotte Atkinson
Variant title
Previously titled 'Jane Emily Atkinson album of watercolour drawings, ca. 1848'. Title amended in July 2020 based on attribution of watercolours and drawings in the album to Charlotte Atkinson (nee Waring, also known as Charlotte Barton).
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Some of the pages of the album are blank.
Some of the drawings are titled in the same hand as the name inscription at the front of the volume.
Signature / Inscriptions
None of the works are signed or dated.
Inscribed in ink front page of album, 'Jane Emily Atkinson / Decr. 28th 1848.'.
Loose slip accompanying album by donor 'This is the last 1989 to M.L [ie. Mitchell Library] by J L Cosh - a gift to Emily not her work certainly by her mother'.
Attributions / Conjectures
Drawings in the album attributed to Charlotte Atkinson by Dr Kate Forsyth in July 2020. Previously, it was thought the note by the donor accompanying the album read '...a gift to Emily not her work certainly by her brother' - on reexamination the note is '...a gift to Emily not her work certainly by her mother', indicating the donor attributed the...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Miss Janet Cosh, the granddaughter of Louisa Atkinson, May 1989
Pic.Acc.4928
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 579
Record Identifier
9AL4Bw4Y
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9AL4Bw4Y
Other Identifiers
Reference code
446206
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