Australian watercolour drawings and etchings, 1796-1809 / by J.W. Lewin, G.P. Harris, G.W. Evans and...
Australian watercolour drawings and etchings, 1796-1809 / by J.W. Lewin, G.P. Harris, G.W. Evans and others ; Plates from Martyn’s conchology, ca. 1789 ; Plates of butterflies and gryllus
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Date
1796-1809
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Collection
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Scope and Contents
Contents
When acquired by the Library in 1950 this collection of watercolours, etchings and plates were in a scrap album. On the verso of the scrap album leaves were prints from the Victorian era (European portrait and landscape engravings, mostly from the 1830s), these were left in place. Leaves to which the sketches were attached have been left with the s...
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Full title
Australian watercolour drawings and etchings, 1796-1809 / by J.W. Lewin, G.P. Harris, G.W. Evans and others ; Plates from Martyn’s conchology, ca. 1789 ; Plates of butterflies and gryllus
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Attributions / Conjectures
It has been suggested that the album once belonged to William Paterson: see Rex & Thea Rienits, "Early artists of Australia", 1963, p.163-165
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Charles W. Traylen, Antiquarian Bookseller, Guildford, Surrey, January 1950
Collection history
Antiquarian Bookseller Charles W. Traylen purchased this scrap album at a country house sale on the instructions of the executors. There was no known family connection with the Lewin or Harris families.
Reference:
Library correspondence file
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9WZRDwGY
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915877
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