Flood coming down the Macquarie, 13th February 1846 / Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Flood coming down the Macquarie, 13th February 1846 / Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Flood coming down the Macquarie, 13th February 1846 / Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1846-1848
Call Numbers
DL Pd 719
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 17.2 x 11 cm - grey wash heightened with white
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
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Flood coming down the Macquarie, 13th February 1846 / Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Unsigned.
Ink note on verso reads 'Original sketch frontispiece to Tropical Australia drawn by Sir T.L. Mitchell given to Emily Tenchet (?) by the sole surviving son N.B. Mitchell on 3rd January 1892 on the conditions that it will always continue an heirloom to some of the descendents of his talented father'.
Attributions / Conjectures
Attribution from note in ink in unknown hand on verso.
Drawing appears to be the original of the below Journal's frontispiece, from which it has been titled.
Date note
Dated from year of expedition and date of publication of Mitchell's 'Journal of an expedition into the interior of Tropical Australia...', London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848.
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL Pd 719
Record Identifier
nGm4Kb5Y
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGm4Kb5Y
Other Identifiers
Reference code
845862
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