H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Sketches - Cape York, New Guinea, Torres Straits, Louisiades, Sep. to Dec. 1849
H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Sketches - Cape York, New Guinea, Torres Straits, Louisiades, Sep. to Dec. 1849
H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Sketches - Cape York, New Guinea, Torres Straits, Louisiades, Sep. to Dec. 1849
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Author / Creator
Date
1849
Call Numbers
PXA 510
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Physical Description
Contents
Albums - 37.8 x 28.5 x 3.5 cm. - 1 sketchbook (leather bound, containing c. 173 pencil - wash - watercolour drawings)
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The sketchbook contains drawings of sailing ships, aspects of indigenous material culture (particularly the construction of canoes and dwellings), coastal and landscape profiles. Places visited by the H.M.S. Rattlesnake - including Cape York, Evans Bay, Port Albany, Mt Ernest, Redscar Bay and Redscar Islands, Darnley Island, Erroaba, Arden Island,...
Alternative Titles
Full title
H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Sketches - Cape York, New Guinea, Torres Straits, Louisiades, Sep. to Dec. 1849
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 824229...
Signature / Inscriptions
A non-contemporaneous label (loose in front of volume), "H.M.S. Rattlesnake / Sketches/ Cape York, New Guinea. Torres / Straits, Louisiades / O.W. Brierly"
Contextual Information
Source
Transferred from Mitchell Manuscripts, Aug. 1997
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 510
Record Identifier
9Bv7B2y9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9Bv7B2y9
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Reference code
421781
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