Volume 5: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop o...
Volume 5: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop o...
Volume 5: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1840s
About this item
Full title
Date
probably 1840s
Call Numbers
PXD 94
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Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (18 drawings) - 48.5 x 40.5 cm (mount) - pencil and watercolour
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Level of description
Item
Access and use
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Out of copyright
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Scope and Contents
Contents
CONTENTS:
1. Port Arthur, 3 January 184?
2. Port Arthur, 4 March 1847
3. Port Arthur, 3 January 1847
4. Blow Hole, Port Arthur, Tasman's Peninsula, 1847
5. Isle des Morts, Port Arthur, 1846
6. Port Arthur Heads, 1848
7. Tasman's Island and Cape Pillar, 12 July 1847
8. Norfolk Bay, Tasman's Peninsula, 13 February 1848
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Volume 5: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1840s
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
Attributions / Conjectures
A number of sketches were possibly drawn by Anna Maria Nixon, nee Maconochie. Mrs Nixon was known to copy her husband's drawings -- Dictionary of Australian Artists / ed. Joan Kerr, entries under A.M. (p.488), Anna Maria Nixon (p.577) and Francis Russell Nixon (p.580).
Description source
Title of album on spine. Title and date of item on drawing. Some captions are partially obscured by the mounts.
Contextual Information
Source
Transferred from D 94, December 1996
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 94
Record Identifier
9gkRB2p9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkRB2p9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9654979
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