Salisbury Court and Coombing T. Icely’s Esq M.C. [ca. 1846] / drawn by G.C. Mundy
Salisbury Court and Coombing T. Icely’s Esq M.C. [ca. 1846] / drawn by G.C. Mundy
Salisbury Court and Coombing T. Icely’s Esq M.C. [ca. 1846] / drawn by G.C. Mundy
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Author / Creator
Date
[ca. 1846]
Call Numbers
SV/290
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Physical Description
Contents
2 drawings - 11.2 x 17.6 cm and 12.8 x 20.5 cm, on album sheet 29.3 x 24.0 cm - ink
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Scope and Contents
Contents
a. 'Salisbury Court' depicts the house on Salisbury Plain, surrounded by fence, with a tree in the foreground and hill in the background
b. 'Coombing T. Icley's Esq. M.C.' depicts the property, the house situated on the estate landscape, with fences, trees and some cattle in a distant paddock. Unfinished pencil drawing on verso, view of Icely's...
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Full title
Salisbury Court and Coombing T. Icely’s Esq M.C. [ca. 1846] / drawn by G.C. Mundy
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1045462
Signature / Inscriptions
Both sketches are titled at top of image, pencil 'By G.C. Mundy' on album sheet below drawings, and pen writing on back of album sheet 'Gen'l Munday was Governor of Jersey Is. at time of death (1860). Ickleton ? Manor, Cambridgeshire, was family home & the scrap book was sold when furnishings of Manor were sold. All other pages have been sold - wen...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Arthur Spartalis Fine Art, June 2013
Administrative / Biographical history
Godfrey Charles Mundy (1804-1860), sketcher, soldier and author, served in India and Canada before arriving in New South Wales in 1846 aboard the Agincourt to take up the position of deputy adjutant-general of the military forces in the Australian colonies. His cousin was the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir Charles Fitzroy, whom Mundy accom...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SV/290
Record Identifier
YzOgzaD9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOgzaD9
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Reference code
1043502
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