[Minnie Strachan - scrapbook]
[Minnie Strachan - scrapbook]
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1872 [dated from dated poems in scrapbook]
Call Numbers
PXA 570
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
Albums - 30.2 x 24 cm. - 1 scrapbook comprising 89 leaves with pencil drawings, prints, autographs, handwritten poems, dried plants : 6 loose sheets comprising pencil drawings and gouache drawings.
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Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Physical Access Conditions
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Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Scrapbook comprises mainly prints and pencil drawings of European portraits, flora and printed religous ephemera.
3 pencil drawings have New South Wales content: "The Kirk Bathurst" (p.55) -- "Scene from nature near Westbourne" (p.63) -- "Westbourne" (p.77)
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Minnie Strachan - scrapbook]
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
"The Kirk, Bathurst" identified as St. Stephens Presbyterian Church, Bathurst cf. John Waugh, St. Stephen's Bathurst 1832-1932, 1932, opp. p.16 ML REF. 285.1/W MITCHELL LIBRARY.
Signature / Inscriptions
"A Token of Remembrance - To Miss Minnie Strachan from her affectionate friend Mrs J Rutherford" -- front end paper
2 pencil drawings, 1 loose and 1 tipped into scrapbook at f.77, are signed "M. Strachan"
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased in 1992 with the assistance of the State Library of New South Wales Foundation
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 570
Record Identifier
9NaE4MWY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaE4MWY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
52145
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