Edward Charles Close - New South Wales Sketchbook: Sea Voyage, Sydney, Illawarra, Newcastle, Morpeth...
Edward Charles Close - New South Wales Sketchbook: Sea Voyage, Sydney, Illawarra, Newcastle, Morpeth...
Edward Charles Close - New South Wales Sketchbook: Sea Voyage, Sydney, Illawarra, Newcastle, Morpeth, c. 1817-1840
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
c.1817-1840
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXA 1187
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
35 drawings (1 bound volume with two loose sheets) - 22.8 x 28.6 cm - 26 watercolours, 2 monochrome wash drawings, 6 pencil drawings, 1 ink drawing, 2 handwritten sheets
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Access Conditions
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Sketchbook of 30 folios (three cut out) containing 26 watercolours, two monochrome wash drawings and six pencil sketches or rough notations, together with a separate ink drawing by another hand and two handwritten sheets of Whatman wove paper (watermarked with the date 1816), bound in morocco.
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Edward Charles Close - New South Wales Sketchbook: Sea Voyage, Sydney, Illawarra, Newcastle, Morpeth, c. 1817-1840
Variant title
Sydney Church and Regimental Mill from the Main Guard - previously captioned Sydney Church and Regimental Mile from the Main Guard.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Other work by Edward Close is held:
Mitchell Library
Edward Close, Album, c. 1805-1840 (PXE 868)
Edward Close, Panorama of Newcastle 1821, watercolour (PXD 576)
National Library of Australia
Sketchbook circa 1817-1840 (PlC R7249-7276 LOC 8631)
Digital order no:Album ID : 877410
Conservation note
Sketchbook re-bound, June 2009
Object History
From a private collection, United Kingdom; by descent through the family of the artist
Published information
James Broadbent and Joy Hughes (eds), The age of Macquarie. Melbourne, 1992. pp. 49 (illus. pp.33, 90, 150)¶¶Cedric Flower, Clothes in Australia: a pictorial history 1788-1980s, Kenthurst, 1984. Cover (illus.), p.49 (illus.)¶¶Caroline Jordan, Picturesque pursuits : colonial women artists and the amateur tradition, Melbourne, 2005. pp. 53-60, 85 (i...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased Sotheby's Melbourne, lot 213, 5 May 2009
Exhibited in
Administrative / Biographical history
This sketchbook, along with its companion volume in the National Library of Australia collection, have long been attributed, on the basis of family tradition, to Sophia Campbell (1777-1833), nee Palmer. She was the sister of John Palmer ( 1760-1833) and later wife of colonial merchant and pioneer pastoralist, Robert Campbell (1769-1846).
It...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXA 1187
Record Identifier
9NaAZK5Y
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaAZK5Y
Other Identifiers
Reference code
861125
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