Phillip Parker King album of drawings and engravings, 1802-1902
Phillip Parker King album of drawings and engravings, 1802-1902
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1802-1902
Call Numbers
PXC 767
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Drawings, Watercolours, Prints, Maps and Manuscripts
Physical Description
Contents
53 watercolours
25 drawings - ink, pencil, ink and wash, and ink and watercolour
46 prints - engravings, lithographs, and woodcuts
2 items of ephemera
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
Original non-consecutive numbering preserved
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Physical Access Conditions
Access to this collection via appointment only. For access to this collection, enquire with staff in the reading room or enquire online using Ask a Librarian
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : Nos. 57, 59, 61, 61a, 67a, 70a, and 74a not digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
An album of drawings and engravings belonging to Phillip Parker King (with many by him), which relate to his surveys of the north-west coast of Australia and Tasmania between 1817 and 1822 in the vessels Mermaid and Bathurst ; and of South America in 1826-1830 commanding HMS Adventure, in company with HMS Beagle. Some early caricatures by King are...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Phillip Parker King album of drawings and engravings, 1802-1902
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 823393...
Signature / Inscriptions
Many items bear faint notes inscribed by King. These are recorded at PXn 951
Attributions / Conjectures
No.48 has been attributed to Phillip Parker King.
Date note
Some are dated. Some dates have been approximated using King's published narratives.
Conservation note
Album rehoused in two boxes, March 1995
Description source
Most titled on image or the reverse.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from the King estate, November 1933
Exhibited in
- Painting the Pacific
- Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait.
- Matthew Flinders : The Ultimate Voyage
- A Rage for Curiosity
- Dare to know : the art and science of Pacific voyages
- Flesh & Blood: Family Connections in Sydney 1788-1998
- Blighted paradise : colonial visions of Northern Australia
- Sound of the sky
- Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850
- O Rio de Janeiro na Rota Dos Mares Do Dul (Rio de Janeiro on the South Seas route)
- Charles Darwin Down Under 1836
- Charles Darwin: voyages and ideas that shook the world
- The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821
- Mari Nawi : Aboriginal Odysseys 1790-1850
- The Governor : Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 (Travelling exhibition)
- Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens
- Dead Central
State Library of New South Wales (28 January - 28 April, 2002). Applies to: No. 54, 86, 104a, 104b, 110a, 110b, 115, 137
State Library of New South Wales (May 1992 - October 1992). Applies to: No. 48
State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: No. 40-45
State Library of New South Wales (September 1997 - January 1998). Applies to: No. 48
State Library of New South Wales (June 1998 - November 1998). Applies to : No. 12
Museum of Sydney (November 1998 - February 1999). Applies to: No. 48
Rockhampton Art Gallery (October 2001 - November 2001). Applies to: No. 64, 74, 79, 88 and 94b
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
State Library of New South Wales (June - August 2006)
Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (November 2006 - January 2007)
State Library of New South Wales
Australian National Maritime Museum (March 2009 - August 2009)
State Library of New South Wales (July 2010 - October 2010)
State Library of New South Wales (September 2010 - December 2012)
State Library of New South Wales (November 2010 - March 2012)
State Library of New South Wales (September 2016 - January 2017). Applies to: f. 64 and f. 85
State Library of New South Wales (May 2019 - May 2020). Applies to: No. 50
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXC 767
Record Identifier
YRlZ7wqn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlZ7wqn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
442570
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