Collection of watercolours of scenes in and around Sydney, and views of the Nepean River, Bathurst P...
Collection of watercolours of scenes in and around Sydney, and views of the Nepean River, Bathurst P...
Collection of watercolours of scenes in and around Sydney, and views of the Nepean River, Bathurst Plains and Sandhurst, 1857-1861 / George Kilgour Ingelow
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1857-1861
Call Numbers
DG*D 32
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Watercolours
Physical Description
Contents
53 watercolours - various sizes
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
VOLUME 1
f.1. View from Long reef, near Collaroy looking north?
f.2. [Sydney Harbour?]sketched as the rain cloud passed over
f.3. [Sydney Harbour?]10 minute later
f.4. Entrance to Sydney Harbour, showing North Head?
f.5. Fort Denison, Sydney Harbour?
f.6. Sydney Harbour
f.7. South Head, Port Jackson?
f.8. From Waverly [sic]l...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Collection of watercolours of scenes in and around Sydney, and views of the Nepean River, Bathurst Plains and Sandhurst, 1857-1861 / George Kilgour Ingelow
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Copy print : DG*D 32
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
A letter from the artist to his sister Jean, poet and novelist, acquired with the watercolours (ff.1-52) is filed at ML DOC 1649
Signature / Inscriptions
None of the sketches are signed.
Most are titled but twenty two are untitled.
f. 53 titled below image, 'burnt Banksia' at right of image, 'burnt isopogon' at left of image. On backing board 'Painted 1857 by Ingelow, a banker who lived at Watsons Bay. 51 [i.e. 52] other watercolours by Ingelow in Mitchell Library. John Ferguson 1969'.
Date note
Six drawings are dated.
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from John Ferguson, September 1968.
Additional drawing 'The North Head' (f. 53) purchased from John Ferguson, December 2000.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DG*D 32
Record Identifier
Ydma46R9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Ydma46R9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
844266
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