Series 02: Photographs and prints of watercolour sketches of ships by Captain James William Holmes,...
Series 02: Photographs and prints of watercolour sketches of ships by Captain James William Holmes, Master Mariner, and C.H. Williams
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Date
1863 - 1965
Call Numbers
PXE 1071
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Pictures, Photographs and Prints
Physical Description
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Photographic prints - albumen, gelatin silver
Prints - watercolour drawings
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Copyright status : Watercolours in copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
Copyright holder : Nora Coughlan
Out of copyright : Created before 1955 (photographs)
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Research & study copies allowed : Prints
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SERIES 02 ITEM 01
Photographs and prints of watercolour sketches of ships by Captain James William Holmes, Master Mariner, and C.H. Williams
PXE 1071
Includes:
Portrait photographs of the Holmes family
Photographs of ships including; Cimba, Inverurie, Invergarry, Mountcalm, Mount Stewart, Mersey and Port Jackson
3 wat...
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Full title
Series 02: Photographs and prints of watercolour sketches of ships by Captain James William Holmes, Master Mariner, and C.H. Williams
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
An ambrotype of an uncle of Captain Holmes, John Holmes who drowned in the Richmond River N.S.W. in ca. 1867, has been transferred from Pic.Acc.615/2. Location number: MIN 331 Mitchell Library
PXE 1071/nos 39, 41, 44, 60, 85 are embossed with the blind stamp `Hood'. These appear to be early works by the photographer Sam Hood.
The Libr...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Mrs Nora Coughlan, November 1965
Pic.Acc.615
Administrative / Biographical history
Captain James William Holmes (1855-1932) was a Master of sailing ships trading to Sydney in the 1890s and early 1900s.
References:
1. Voyaging, fifty years on the seven seas in sail / Captain James William Holmes, edited by Nora Coughlan. London : Hutchinson Group, 1965. Location number: 910.45/70A1 Mitchell Library
2. Colonial clippe...
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PXE 1071
Record Identifier
nZNmlEQn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNmlEQn
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Reference code
52582
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