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My sketch book, [ca. 1859-ca. 1861] / Frank Lea Smyth
My sketch book, [ca. 1859-ca. 1861] / Frank Lea Smyth
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
[ca. 1859-ca. 1861]
Call Numbers
PXB 766
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Drawings and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 sketchbook (37 drawings, 5 photographs) - 16 x 10 cm (sketchbook), 6 x 8 cm and smaller (photographs) - 136 pages, pencil and ink, calotypes
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
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Small red sketchbook bound in limp morocco with gilt rule, cover stamped in gilt ‘My sketch book / Frank Lea Smyth’. Marbled endpapers with bookplate of G. & N. Ingleton in front cover, and Ingleton Catalogue stamp on last page.
Sketchbook contains:
5 calotype photographic prints showing portraits of two men and two women in formal clothi...
Alternative Titles
Full title
My sketch book, [ca. 1859-ca. 1861] / Frank Lea Smyth
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
An entry for this sketchbook appears in: A catalogue of select books from the Ingleton Collection / [compiled and annotated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton]. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, [1977]. Entry no. 14267.
Conservation note
4.5 cm binding cover ripped from top of spine. Some pages have been razored from sketchbook.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2015
Administrative / Biographical history
Fank Lea Smyth (1851-1922), son of Samuel Hodgson Smyth (1807-1889) of Ashfield Park, was an Oxford educated barrister who practised before the supreme court of New South Wales.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXB 766
Record Identifier
n5lXBMe9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n5lXBMe9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1000053
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