Collection 25: Drawings / Album of watercolour drawings of Australian natural history, owned by Robe...
Collection 25: Drawings / Album of watercolour drawings of Australian natural history, owned by Robe...
Collection 25: Drawings / Album of watercolour drawings of Australian natural history, owned by Robert Anderson Seton, ca.1800
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1800
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXA 914
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
89 drawings (on 63 pages, in 1 album of 151 pages) - 29.3 x 25 x 2.2 cm
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955.
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Comprises 1 album of 151 pages, bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, and with the spine with raised bands. Album contains 89 drawings on 63 pages.
The drawings are titled from "Index Birds", which is on pages 1 & 2 of the volume. Page numbers are those assigned by the Library: the plate numbers assigned by the compiler of the...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Collection 25: Drawings / Album of watercolour drawings of Australian natural history, owned by Robert Anderson Seton, ca.1800
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 823225...
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled on spine
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from the Willcox Collection of Important Australian Natural History Paintings and Books, Sotheby's Melbourne, 28 November 2000, lot 9
Exhibited in
Administrative / Biographical history
Robert Anderson was the son of Doctor James Anderson and Margaret Seton, of Mounie. The Setons were a prominent Scottish family, and Anderson's brother later added Seton to the Anderson name, in honour of his mother's family.
Robert was in NSW in 1800, where Governor Hunter appointed him an ensign in the NSW Corps. He left the colony in 1805, fo...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXA 914
Record Identifier
YdmdExp9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YdmdExp9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
411977
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