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1. No 5: [Unidentified coastal scene with battery, beach and sailing craft] 1827. Watercolour 11.5 x 15.1 cm. Signed on reverse, in ink 'E. King [i.e. Elizabeth King] Sc[ulpsit?];  'A.J. King' [i.e. Anna Josepha King];  and 'No 5'  
2. No 6: [Unidentified coastal scene with warship at anchor] 14 July 1827. Watercolour, 11.2 x 15.3 cm. Signed in ink on reverse: 'E. King Sc[ulpsit?], date as given above';  'A.J. King';  and 'No 6'
3. Page cut from album, on which are pasted: (a) Carte-de-visite photographic portrait of Captain Robert FitzRoy ('Wothlytype 213 Regent Street' [London]). Image can be dated to ca. 1864 when the uncommon 'wothleytype' method of printing was used. Beneath image is inscription in black ink in another hand, of the sitter's name, and beneath this is an original signature 'Robert FitzRoy' in sepia ink, cut from an A.L.S.;  (b) Albumen paper photographic print of Philip Gidley King, ca. 1860s. This portrait has been cut from a larger one, and has King's signature beneath in faded dark blue ink;  (c) Carte-de-visite photographic portrait of Charles Darwin, early 1860s. His name has been inscribed in black ink in a later hand beneath;  (d) H.M.S. Beagle. Chromolithograph by Marcus Ward & Co., after a painting by E. Duncan, ca. 1880. Pasted on reverse of the page are handwritten notes about FitzRoy and Darwin, and a printed cutting of an extract of Erasmus Darwin's poem about 'Sydney Cove
4. Goomburra from the South East / C. Martens / Decr.27th 1851. Pencil drawing, 18.4 x 23.3 cm. Inscribed with title, signature and date by the artist. A very similar drawing by Martens is held in an album in the Pictures Collection, Mitchell Library (ref. ZPXA 296, f. 25). On the reverse of the drawing is a manuscript poem 'Farewell to the Year 1848 and Home'
5. Elizabeth Bay. Port Jackson. Wm McLeay Esqre. Proof lithograph, 26.7 x 36 cm. Title inscribed in pencil, overwritten in ink lower right beneath image;  also in pencil lower left in a later hand 'Elizabeth Bay House - Sir William Macleay'. The lithograph was issued in Conrad Martens Sketches in the Environs  of Sydney ... 1850, set 2, no. 1, plate 1with the title 'Elizabeth Bay, Port Jackson' (see  copy  at Q981.1/M, location: Mitchell Library);  
6. Darling Pt. Clarke Isld [sic, ie Island] Double Bay. Proof lithograph, 26.4  x 32.1 cm. Title inscribed in ink lower right beneath image;  repeated in pencil in a later hand along top edge. The lithograph was issued in Conrad Martens Sketches in the Environs of Sydney ... 1851, set 2, no.2, plate 4, with title 'Clarke's Island, Port Jackson' (see copy at Q98.1/M, location: Mitchell Library)

[King family collection]

1821;  'Extract from Lieut Roe's letter to his Father of 1821.' (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
22 July 1825;  Copy of a letter written by Phillip Parker King to John W. Croker, Admiralty;  marked 'Private' (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
28 May 1833;  Incomplete letter written by Phillip Parker King to creditors in England (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
25 January 1836;  Copy of a letter written by Phillip Parker King to Captain Robert FitzRoy (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
15 August 1840;  Letter pres copy of a letter written by Phillip Parker King to the Trustees of  the Marriage Settlement of Charles and Elizabeth Runciman (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
19 August 1841;  `The Antarctic expedition of discovery. (Copied from the Sydney "Herald", August 19th, 1841.)' by Phillip Parker King;  with note in the hand of King. (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
ca 1844?;  Copy of a letter written by Phillip Parker King to Hannibal Macarthur;  annotated in the hand of Philip Gidley King (younger), October 1898 (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
12 February 1848;  Copy of a letter written by Phillip Parker King to Hannibal Macarthur (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
28 October - 22 November 1849;  Notes on voyage of HMS Fly (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
12 April 1852;  Draft letter written by Phillip Parker King beginning `My dear Lord Bishop' (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
5 October 1852;  Draft letter written by Phillip Parker King to William Burna (?) (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
17 May 1856;  Draft letter written by Phillip parker King to Sir Charles Cowper (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
Undated;  Notes written by Phillip Parker King re. John King Lethbridge (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)
Undated;  Pencil sketches (2) by unknown artist, possibly Phillip Parker King (Call No.: MLMSS 7048/1/6)

Series 6: Phillip Parker King - Copies of letters sent, and notes, 1821-1856

Article of Captain Fitzroy's government of New Zealand by Trelawny Saunders, 1843-1845?

An album of drawings and engravings belonging to Phillip Parker King (with many by him), which relate to his surveys of the north-west coast of Australia and Tasmania between 1817 and 1822 in the vessels Mermaid and Bathurst ; and of South America in 1826-1830 commanding HMS Adventure, in company with HMS Beagle. Some early caricatures by King are included. Later material in the album may have been added by P. P. King's son, Philip Gidley King.

The album has been separated and album pages rehoused in two boxes - nos. 1-79 and nos. 80-152.

1. Phillip P. King [Label]
1a. Index to Capt. P. P. King's album [MSS, in hand of P. G. King the younger?]
2. Paradise Lost Book IX [Engraving] 
3. Paradise Lost Book X [Engraving]
4. ? Geo. Dollond [Portrait, engraving]
6. James Watt [Portrait, engraving]
8. Mt. St. Michel, 1902 / A. H. Hallam Murray [Greeting card: etching]
10. Paradise Lost Book IV [Engraving]
12. Commodore Baudin, [ca. 1810][Ink sketch]
14. Captain James Cook / engraved by W. Holl [from a painting by N. Dance][Portrait, engraving]
16. Paradise Lost Book V [Engraving]
18a. Canoe of Endeavour River [Woodcut]
18b. Canoe of Rockingham Bay [Woodcut]
18c. Method of striking the turtle and securing them by the Indians at Rockingham Bay [Woodcut]
18d. Turtle peg of the East Coast [Woodcut]
20a. Peru [Man in canoe] / by W. H. Lizars [Engraving]
20b. [Unidentified implement][Woodcut]
20c. [Throwing stick][Woodcut]
20d. Huts of the Indians at Careening Bay [Woodcut]
20e. Throwing stick of the Indians of King George Sound [Woodcut]
20f. Hammer [Woodcut]
20g. Cape Horn / by W. H. Lizars [Engraving]
20h. Knife [Woodcut]
22. Paradise Lost Book VIII [Engraving]
24a. Port of London [Engraving]
24b. Paris L'Institut Pont des Arts / T. Boys delt.;  P. Heath sculp. [Engraving]
26. Captain Cook / Roffe Sc. [Portrait, engraving]
27a. Tower of Mauconseil [Engraving]
27b. [MSS caption re portrait engraving, no. 28]
28. Robert Blake, General and Admiral of the Parliament Forces / engraved by J. Cochran [from a painting by H. P. Briggs][Portrait, engraving]
29a. St Nicholas near Ramsgate [Engraving]
29b. Broadstairs, Kent [Engraving]
29c. Kingsgate Castle [Engraving]
29d. Dandelion near Margate [Engraving]
29e. Twickenham [Engraving]
29f. Birchington, Kent [Engraving]
30. Edward Russell, Earl of Orford, First Commissioner of the Admiralty / engraved by W. Holl [from a painting by Dahl][Portrait, engraving]
32. Alexander, Lord Viscount Bridport, K.B., Admiral of the Red / engraved by H. Robinson [from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds][Portrait, engraving]
33a. Seat of Major Roberts, Hampstead [Engraving]
33b. View from Richmond Hill [Engraving]
34. The defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588 / W. P. Rogers delin., engraved by J. C. Allen [from a painting by P. J. de Loutherbourg][Engraving]
36. Edward, Lord Hawke, K.B., Admiral of the Fleet / engraved by H. T. Ryall [from a painting by F. Cotes][Portrait, engraving]
38. John Benbow Esqre., Admiral of the Blue / engraved by W. T. Mote [from a painting by Sir G. Kneller][Portrait, engraving]
40. Capt. Franklin, R.N. F.R.S. / drawn by G. R. Lewis;  engd. by F. C. Lewis [Portrait, engraving]
42. Honble. Samuel Barrington, Admiral of the White / engraved by H. T. Ryall [from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds][Portrait, engraving]
44. George Byng, Viscount Torrington, K.B., First Commissioner of the Admiralty / engraved by W. H. Mote [from a painting by Godrey Kneller][Portrait, engraving]
46. Richd. Cunningham / R. Martin & Co. lith. [from a portrait by McNees][Portrait, lithograph]
48. Boon-ga-ree Aboriginal of New So. Wales 1819 who accompanied me on my first voyage to the NW Coast [Portrait, watercolour]
50. [Allan Cunningham][Portrait, lithograph]
50a. Allan Cunningham (no poet truly but) His Majesty's Botanist in New South Wales [Engraved label to portrait, no. 50]
52. [Allan Cunningham][Portrait, lithograph]
53. [Insect] / drawn by Miss Ethel Stephens, Sydney 1886 [Watercolour]
54. Euprepia Crokeni ...;  Macroglossum Kingii ...;  Cicado zonalis ... [Three watercolours of insects]
55. Megamerus Kingii [Watercolour]
56. View of Goold Island and Mount Hinchinbrook from Rockingham Bay, [1819] / etched by P. P. King [Etching and wash]
57. Port Essington [MSS caption to no. 58]
58. View of Inner Harbour, Port Essington (North Coast) taken from Spear Point, [1818][Watercolour]
59. [MSS caption to no. 60]
60. View of Inner Harbour, Port Essington, [1818][Watercolour]
61. Apsley St. [MSS caption to no. 62]
62. Apsley Strait, [1818][Watercolour]
64. Interview with the natives at Luxmore Head in Melville Island, [1818][Ink and wash and MSS caption]
65. Advre. & Beagle at [symbol of an anchor = anchor] in Tide-Way at Possession Bay Christmas Day 1826. } View of Mt. Aymond & the Asses Ears. Tide running out 7 knots [Watercolour]
66. Coepang, Timor, taken fm. Fort Concordia, [1818][Ink sketch]
66a. [MSS caption to no. 66]
67. View of Wellington [Range?] from Sims Island, [1818][Watercolour]
67a. [Wellington] Hills, ["The] Tor", Macquarie Strait [MSS caption to no. 67]
bears the partial caption, "Wellington Hills, ["The] Tor", Macquarie Strait", that was previously attached to reverse of No.66.
Bears the partial caption, "Wellington Hills, ["The] Tor", Macquarie Strait", that was previously attached to reverse of No.66.
68. Robert FitzRoy, [1838?] / Sketched by Admiral King [Pencil sketch]
69. Capt. FitzRoy, HMS Beagle / Sketched by P. G. King, 1838 [Ink & wash]
70. Mount Cockburn, Cambridge Gulf, [1819][Ink sketch]
70a. Mt. Cockburn, Cambridge Gulf [MSS caption to no. 70]
72. Adelaide, [1830?] / Owen Stanley delint. [Watercolour]
74. Raffles Bay, No. Coast New Holland, [1818][Watercolour]
74a. Raffles Bay No Coast N. Holland / [Croker?] Id. / Fort Wellington Old Settlement [MSS caption to no. 74]
76. Kingia Australis, R. Brown, Swan Rr., [1825?][Ink & wash]
78. Sugarloaf Rio de Janeiro, [1827?][Watercolour]
79. Entce. of Endeavour R. from [symbol of anchor = anchor]age outside the Bar, [1819][Watercolour]
80. Huts of the Natives. Careening Bay. NW Coast of Australia, [1820][Ink sketch]
81. Cascades at Prince Regent's River, [1821][Watercolour]
82. View of Mermaid Strait from Enderby Island (Rocky Head) Feb 25 [1818][Watercolour]
84. [Seashell] Rottnest Is., [1822][Watercolour]
85. His Majestys Cutter Mermaid Lt. P P King 1817 [Ink sketch]
Top centre is a scale, "10 feet to an inch".
86. Mermaid at [symbol of an anchor = anchor] Endeavour River East Coast, [1819][Watercolour]
87. Dimensions of Mast Yds &c. of Mermaid [MSS]
88. Repairing the Cutter Mermaid, Careening Bay, [1820][Wash]
89. Art Union of London, 1901-1902 [Advertisement]
90. [Seashells. Four views][Watercolour]
92. [Two views of seashell][Watercolour]
94a. [Raft and Aborigines, Hanover Bay, 1821][Wash]
94b. [Mt. Cockburn, 1819][Watercolour]
97. Chart of a part of South America, surveyed ... under the direction of Capt. P. P. King, during the years 1826-30 / Engraved by J. Gardner;  published  for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1831 [Engraving] 
98a. [Untitled harbour scene, 1818-22?][Watercolour]
98b. [Untitled coastal scene, 1818-22?][Watercolour]
100. Entrance of Macquarie Harbour, Van Diemen's Land, [1819][Watercolour]
102. Hobart Town & view of the Derwent River, Taken from Signal [hut] Mt Nelson, Van Diemen's Land, [1819][Watercolour]
104a. View in Rockingham Bay ... and the distant mountn. Mt. Hinchinbrook, [1819][Watercolour]
104b. Entrance of Endeavour River, from the Hill at the North end of Long Sandy Beach [Watercolour]
106a. View of North Side of Oyster Harbour, King Georges Sound, from the summit of hill on east side of its Entce., Jan 1818 [Watercolour]
106b. View of Entrance of Princess Royal Harbour King Geo. Sound from summit of hill on East side of Entrance to Oyster harbour - Jany 1818 [Watercolour]
108a. Entrance of Oyster Harbour King Geo Sound from Inside at Bayonet Heads, [1818][Watercolour]
108b. Entce. of Twofold Bay, [1817][Watercolour]
110a. [View of the entrance] of Port Macquarie from the Green Mound, [1819] [Watercolour]
110b. Hastings River Pt. [ie Point] Elizabeth, [1819][Watercolour]
112. San Carlos de Chiloe, [1829?][Watercolour]
113. Sugar Loaf Rio, [1827?][Watercolour]
115. Patagonia Indian at Cape Gregory, [1827?] / [Runciman?][Watercolour]
116. Tower Rock. So. side of Port Desire, [1829?][Pencil]
117. Family of Patagonian Indians at Gregory Bay. Jan 1. 1827 / PPK [Ink & watercolour]
118. Mount Tarn from Port Famine, [1827?] / P.P.K. [Watercolour]
119. Mount Tarn over Point St Anna, [1827?][Watercolour]
119a. [Unidentified river scene][Watercolour]
119b. Mercedes Vigil Aldunate. d. of Governor & General Aldunate. Chiloe 1829 [Pencil]
120. Curious Peak. So. head of Admiralty Sound Tierra del Fuego / PPK, 1828 [Wash]
121. View in Bell Bay of Pond Harbour and Mount Pond - Strait of Magalhaens Tierra del Fuego, [1829?] / PPK [Pencil]
123. From a sketch by Lieut. Graves. View in Cockburn Channel from Prowse Islands looking Eastward. Mount Sarmiento in background, [1829?][Pencil]
123a. South Head of Wigwam Cove. Cape Horn in the distance, [1829?][Watercolour]
124. View of Mount Maxwell in Dighton Bay N.East of Barbara Channel taken from Sketch Islet, [1829][Watercolour]
125. Patagonians ... / P.P.K. 1828 [Pencil]
126. View in Humming Bird Cove Port San Antonio } Dawson Id. - Strait of Magalhaens about S.E. from Port Famine, [1828?] / PPK [Pencil]
127. View [near?] Admiralty Sond [ie Sound] of Curious Peak, [1827][Watercolour]
128. View of Humming Bird Cove - Port San Antonio, [1828?][Watercolour]
129. View from Cape Rowlett looking down Admiralty Sound, [1827?][Watercolour]
130. Bay to the West of Bold Pt. Staten Id. Mount in the center E 1/2 N - from  Strait Le Maire, [1830?][Ink sketch]
131. [MSS: extract in Spanish from "Viage al Estrecho de Magallanes" by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa;  with coastal profile sketched in ink, n.d.]
132. View of Mt Sarmiento from abreast of Cape Froward. St. of Magalhaens, [1827?][Pencil]
134. Cumberland Bay Juan Fernandez with the Yungue and valley in which Commodore Anson encamped, [1830?][Pencil]
136. View of the west side of the Bay of Juan Fernandez. Taken from the 5 gun battery (in view), [1830?] / PPK [Pencil]
137. Hawk. Port Famine. nat size, [1827?] / PPK [Watercolour]
138. Picus Magellanicus. Male Bird. Port Famine Jan 26 1827 / PPK [Watercolour]
139. Port Famine 1827 / PPK [Pencil]
140. View of Mount Sarmiento from Cockburn Channel sketch Lt Graves, [1827?] / PPK [Watercolour]
142. P. G. King [the younger], 1829 [Pencil]
146. Scene "The Quarter Deck", 1809 [Caricature, watercolour]
148. Col. B.rk. [Officer] Rio De Janeiro, 1809 [Caricature, watercolour]
149. A Front View of a Learned Man. Scene the "Main Deck" / Phillip King April 1809 [Caricature, watercolour]
150. Is that all? [Man with sheep] / PPK [Pencil]
152. [Back cover]["Is] this the promised end?" [MSS]

1. Phillip P. King [Label]

1a. Index to Capt. P. P. King's album [MSS, in hand of P. G. King the younger?]

Phillip Parker King album of drawings and engravings, 1802-1902

Vice Admiral Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865), naval officer, hydrographer, colonial governor, meteorologist : signed photographic copy of a portrait by Samuel Lane, ca. 1863

Joseph Dixon - certificate of appointment as sheriff of the Northern District of New Ulster, New Zealand, made by Governor Robert FitzRoy, 1844

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Series 6: Phillip Parker King - Copies of letters sent, and notes, 1821-1856

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Article of Captain Fitzroy's government of New Zealand by Trelawny Saunders, 1843-1845?

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Phillip Parker King album of drawings and engravings, 1802-1902

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Vice Admiral Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865), naval officer, hydrographer, colonial governor, meteorologist : signed photographic copy of a portrait by Samuel Lane, ca. 1863

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Joseph Dixon - certificate of appointment as sheriff of the Northern District of New Ulster, New Zealand, made by Governor Robert FitzRoy, 1844

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