Album - scrap album compiled by Richard Jones
Album - scrap album compiled by Richard Jones
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1837 - 1858
Call Numbers
PXA 972
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
Albums - 29.2 x 24 x 2.5 cm - 1 scrap album produced by W. & H. Rock, London, with embossed cover boards
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1. Album -- printed title page with illustration
2. Watercolour of 3 sailboats with a fort at right.
3. [Sailboat and buoy] -- pencil drawing initialled "L A J". (Louisa Alexandrina Jones 1827-1906), sister of Richard Jones Jr.
4. [European view of a castle beside a river, and a church above] -- pencil drawing signed in faint pencil "Cath...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Album - scrap album compiled by Richard Jones
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
The album includes many contributions from Jones' social circle, including the Cowpers, Stuart Donaldson (his father's business partner), and the Ferriters who married into the Jones family.
It has not proved possible to identify the artist of Sydney watercolours - f.12 St Philips, f.16 Bona Vista, f.19 Seat of the Rev.d W. Cowper D.D., f.39 Dar...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Iris Richards, a great-grand-daughter of Richard Jones, in May 2002
Exhibited in
Administrative / Biographical history
This album appears to have been mainly compiled by Richard Jones (1823-1907) around the time he left Sydney for England in 1840. His father was a prominent, and wealthy, Sydney merchant.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 972
Record Identifier
YzOgJVG9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOgJVG9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
421934
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