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[Hawkins family drawing room, ca. 1830]

[Hawkins family drawing room, ca. 1830]

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/npAdbZl1

[Hawkins family drawing room, ca. 1830]

About this item

Full title

[Hawkins family drawing room, ca. 1830]

Date

ca. 1830

Call Numbers

DG SV1B/45

Record Identifier

npAdbZl1

Reference Code

896440

Formats

Physical Description

Contents

1 drawing - image 14.2 x 26.2 cm, sheet 21.8 x 31 cm - pencil

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

Access and use

Issue Copy

Digitised

More information

Scope and Contents

Contents

The group pictured in this drawing may be Thomas Fitzherbert Hawkins family, drawn by one of its younger members. Hawkins built "a fine brick house" in the 1820's on his selection, Blackdown, Macquarie River

(Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography. v.1, 1788-1850; pp.524-525)

For descriptive notes on Blackdown see 'The Nationa...

Alternative Titles

Full title

[Hawkins family drawing room, ca. 1830]

Notes

General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 1310073...

Signature / Inscriptions

Unsigned, undated and untitled

The following names are written in pencil on a former backing sheet (now removed and filed with the drawing): "I...[E]ddy Edward Hawkins esquire...[a]nd Jackson Hawkins...John Poole (?)...Robinson Brighton...[?]"; the writing may be a child's practice

"Mrs. Wood(d?)s" was written in pencil on a backing...

Date note

No date. Dated to ca. 1830 by Terence Lane & Jessie Serle in "Australians at Home". Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990, p.63

Description source

Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010

Contextual Information

Source

Purchased from Mr M. Campbell, 19 October 1982
DG Pic.Acc.295

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

DG SV1B/45

Record Identifier

npAdbZl1

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/npAdbZl1

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Reference code

896440

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