Volume 2: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop o...
Volume 2: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop o...
Volume 2: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1840s
About this item
Full title
Date
probably 1840s
Call Numbers
PXD 91
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Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (16 drawings) - 48.5 x 40.5 cm (mount) - pencil and watercolour
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Out of copyright
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Scope and Contents
Contents
CONTENTS:
1. Ben Lomond from Snakesbank [Snake Banks]
2. Ben Lomond V.D.L.
3. East-Bay Neck from Mount Communi..., 1846
4. Eagle-Hawk Neck from Mount Communi..., 1846
5. Hippolite Rocks, Eagle Hawk Neck, 28 June...
6. Eagle-Hawk Neck, August...
7. Military Barracks, Eagle Hawk Neck, 2? September 18...
8. Sea coast near E...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Volume 2: Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1840s
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
Attributions / Conjectures
A number of sketches were possibly drawn by Anna Maria Nixon, nee Maconochie. Mrs Nixon was known to copy her husband's drawings -- Dictionary of Australian Artists / ed. Joan Kerr, entries under A.M. (p.488), Anna Maria Nixon (p.577) and Francis Russell Nixon (p.580).
Description source
Title of album on spine. Title and date of item on drawing. Some captions are partially obscured by the mounts.
Contextual Information
Source
Transferred from D 91, December 1996
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 91
Record Identifier
nZNW6r6n
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNW6r6n
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Reference code
9654977
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