Item 08: [Album including drawings of cultural artefacts, fish, and snakes, 1890-1897 / by J. S. Bra...
Item 08: [Album including drawings of cultural artefacts, fish, and snakes, 1890-1897 / by J. S. Bray]
About this item
Full title
Date
1890-1897
Call Numbers
PXA 194
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Watercolours and Drawings
Physical Description
Contents
1 album - mostly watercolour
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised : 2014
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Includes drawings of artefacts from the Solomon Islands, British New Guinea, and New Zealand ; Bray's daily log recording a Diamond snake's egg laying ; "Asprey's home", old Aboriginal gunyah off the Spit road, Middle Harbour ; and illustrations of fish, birds, plants, and opals (34 drawings).
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 08: [Album including drawings of cultural artefacts, fish, and snakes, 1890-1897 / by J. S. Bray]
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1148183
Signature / Inscriptions
Some drawings signed and dated by artist.
First page of album signed "DS. Mitchell".
Date note
Dated from album.
Conservation note
Album was rebound, May 1944
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D. S. Mitchell, 1907
Transferred from Mitchell Library Manuscripts A 194, August 1997
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 194
Record Identifier
nX6OKkvY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nX6OKkvY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1136889
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