Godfrey Charles Mundy - album of pen & ink drawings, ca. 1834
Godfrey Charles Mundy - album of pen & ink drawings, ca. 1834
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Date
ca. 1834
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PXB 425
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Albums - 18.7 x 12.5 x 2 cm. - 1 album (57 pen & ink drawings tipped into coloured leaves). Rebound in modern times, retaining original free endpapers and with the edges untrimmed, in blue half morocco, spine elaborately gilt.
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This original album dates from Mundys time in India, Canada and subsequently in London. The drawings are often humorous depictions of incidents, scenes of life and customs. The first two sketches are self-portraits -- file notes.
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Godfrey Charles Mundy - album of pen & ink drawings, ca. 1834
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Mundy had previously published 'Pen and Pencil Sketches, being the Journal of a Tour of India' (London, 1832). His Australasian excursions resulted in the publication of 'Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies, with a Glimpse of the Gold Fields' (3 vols, London, 1852). He illustrated this book with 15 lithographic pla...
Signature / Inscriptions
"S[arah, the artists mother?] Mundy, 42 Bryanston St." in pencil on the retained front endpaper
Drawings are signed "G.C.M." at lower edge
"1834" -- at lower edge (drawing no.1)
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased Aug 2003
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 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 accompanied on tours aroun...
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Call Numbers
PXB 425
Record Identifier
nM7lNZXY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nM7lNZXY
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431078
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