John Andrew Bonar sketchbooks of views in New South Wales and Queensland, with sketches made on his...
John Andrew Bonar sketchbooks of views in New South Wales and Queensland, with sketches made on his voyage between England and Australia in chiefly ca. 1857 and 1860
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Date
ca. 1857 and 1860
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Physical Description
Contents
2 volumes (106 watercolours and 1 photographic lithograph) - 14.2 x 24.2 cm and 23.5 x 29.8 cm - pen and link, and pencil sketches, some heightened with white
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955, applies to works by John Andrew Bonar
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Sketchbooks include views in New South Wales, made during the artists's excursions to Australian Agricultural Company properties between 1857 and 1858, in Queensland between ca. 1857 and 1871 and sketches made on Bonar's second voyage to Australia in 1860
Item 01
Sketchbook of John Andrew Bonar who went to Australia in 1857
Item 02...
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Full title
John Andrew Bonar sketchbooks of views in New South Wales and Queensland, with sketches made on his voyage between England and Australia in chiefly ca. 1857 and 1860
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Date note
Thirteen drawings are dated between 1860 and 1869
Collection is dated from artist's period in Australia.
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Mrs M.G.G. Gifford, 1986
Pic.Acc.6059
Administrative / Biographical history
John Andrew Bonar, born in Edinburgh in 1835, son of Andrew Bonar, first travelled to Australia in 1857. His father was already in Australia working for the Australian Land Company. Bonar returned to England at the end of 1858. He came back to Australia in 1860 and in 1862 married the daughter of Ralph Edward Godschall Johnson, clerk to the Queensl...
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Record Identifier
nmQdwoon
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nmQdwoon
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Reference code
982582
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