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Title
[Album of] Pencil sketches, watercolours, etc. by C. Martens, O.W. Brierly, S.T. Gill, John Rae, C. Rodius and others, ca. 1823-1863
Call number
PXC 284
Level of description
fonds
Date

1823-1824, 1836, 1838, 1840-1843, 1846, 1849, 1851, 1855, 1863
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Prints
Reference code
404878
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album (21 drawings and 13 prints) - pencil and watercolour - 29.6 x 42.7 cm.
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Jemmy Button, captured as a boy in Tierre del Fuego and taken to London by Robert FitzRoy of the ship Beagle, was so named due to the payment of a pearl button in recompense for his life. In 1833 he was returned to his home in South America as a bearer of 'enlightened society' and to spread the Christian word. -- Reference: Charles Darwin Corresponence, University of Cambridge, Online 2004. See R. Fitz-Roy, "Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle ... Vol.II, pp.4-16 (ML ref. 508.3/7A1-4).
Scope and Content
i. [flyleaf] Ash Island May 12th/41 [i.e. 1841 by Conrad Martens]
1. Sydney Cove [by Conrad Martens]
2. Study of Bush on the Patterson Oct 11/36 [by Conard Martens]
3. Newcastle Church May 13/41 [by Conrad Martens]
4. Church at Morpeth May - 10th/40 [by Conrad Martens]
5. Sydney Cove - Oct. 4/38
6. The Hunter at Glendon May 3/41 [pencil drawing by Conrad Martens]
7. The Corall. Bungonia - Jul. 19/36 [by Conrad Martens]
8. Bugonia Creek July 26/36- [by Conrad Martens]
9. Fort Street. Feb 8th/43- [by Conrad Martens]
10. Wreck of the "Edd Lalm" e On Middle Head Fort Jackson" / O.W. Brierly. Titled on mount.
11. Design for National Monument to the Memory of Captain Cook ... [print]
12. [Riverbank with hills in distance. Watercolour drawing]
13. Jemmy Button [a boy of Tierra del Fuego] / G [or T] R Day 1830
14. [Portrait of a young woman, possibly Fuegia Basket of Tierra del Fugeo]
15a. The Tombs Garden Island / J.S. Prout
15b. [Street view] / John Rae, 1846
16. [Studies of Maori men and women. Engravings]
17. Kangaroo of New South Wales. 1842 Sketched from Nature and Drawn on Stone by T.T. Balcombe. Printed by T. Liley
18a. Cour de ma demeure Hotel Swisse faubourg ... / Chas Rodius del 1823
18b. St John's Church [Adelaide] / S[?].T.G. 1849
19. Panshanger in Van Diemen's Land [ca. 1835]
20. [Vaucluse, 1851 / lithograph by G. E. Peacock]. At lower left, "From Nature & on Stone by G.E. Peacock". At lower right, ""J. Allan Lith. Printer"
21. Landing Place of Capt. Cook ... 1864 / S.T.G.
22. [Bush scene with Aboriginal family. The man is holding an axe and chopping wood.] / ...wate [or ...wale in pencil at lower right] signed Newall at lower right.
23. Dr Leichhardt, 1846 / Charles Rodius
24a. Tamehamalu. Queen of the Sandwich Island. / R. Cooper fc. [engraving]
24b. Rhio Rhio. [i.e. Kamehameha II] King of the Sandwich Islands. Engraved for the Lady's Magazine 1824 [engraving]
25. [Robert Campbell] Yours truly R. Campbell / E. Thomas [and] Walter Mason [engraving]
26. View from the Sydney Hotel / Earle's Lithography. Pubd. at Sydney N.S.W. [colour lithograph]
27. Sydney Heads. [ca. 1826] / Earle's Lithography. Pubd. at Sydney N.S.W.
28. Land Auction Main Road Ballarat 1855 / S.T.G.
29. "The Old Commodore," / Billy Blue. Drawn from Life and / on Stone by John Carmichael. Printed by I.G. Austin / 15 Phillip Street Sydney.
30. Ease without Opulence / The Barrow is insured[?] / W.A. to Grandmas / 1863 / S.T.G. [signed in pencil at lower left of image]
31. Yours most Respectfully T. Rainford / F.C.S.
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Title amended on advice of reader:
31. Yours most Respectfully T. Nainford / F.C.S.
changed to
31. Yours most Respectfully T. Rainford / F.C.S.
26 June 2023
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General note

Bound into volume by SLNSW Preservation Branch at an unknown date.
No.3 This pencil drawing shows a church with some similarities to Christchurch, Newcastle but is not identical to other images of the church.
No.15a A lithograph of this image is located at SSV1/Har/Gar/1
No.15b. In pencil on reverse of image in an unknown hand, ""Old Millers Point""
No.19 The print is not signed or lettered. Attributed to L. Haghe after comparison with a lithograph, lettered ""On stone by L. Haghe"" and ""Day & Haghe Lithrs to the King London / Penshanger the seat of Joseph Archer Esqre county of Cornwall, Van Diemen's Land"", listed and reporduced in Craig, Clifford. Old Tasmanian Prints. Launceston, Foot and Playsted, 1964, pp. 269 & 272, pl.70 (ML ref. 769.966/1A1). Panshanger was erected between 1829 and 1835.
No.20. Formerly titled ""Sydney Harbour"" on an old Mitchell Library card catalogue. This lithograph is a copy of Peacock's oil of Vaucluse, 1851 (ML 236). Enterprising colonial artists often published prints of their own works. Peacock published at least two. -- Reference: George Edwards Peacock exhibition catalogue / State Library of New South Wales, 2002
No.27 This view with some variations is published in Dumont d'Urville - Voyage de decouvertes de l'Astrolable .. Paris, 1833 (ML 980/5 plate 31). In this publication the artist is given as de Sainson and titled ""Vue des caps du Port Jackson"". A hand colour lithograph of this print is located at PX*D 321.
No.29. Publication of this lithograph was noted in ""The Sydney Times"" 19 September 1834
Digital order no:Album ID : 824681
Signatures / Inscriptions

Some images are titled, signed, and dated.
Creator/Author/Artist
Balcombe, T. (Thomas), 1810-1861
Brierly, Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.), 1817-1894
Carmichael, John, 1803-1857
Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1818-1880
Haghe, Louis, 1806-1885
Liley, T., active approximately 1840
Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878
Mason, Walter G.
Peacock, G. E. (George Edwards), b. 1806
Prout, John Skinner, 1805-1876
Rae, John, 1813-1900
Rodius, Charles, 1802-1860
Thomas, Edmund, 1827-1867
Name
Blue, William, 1767?-1834
Button, Jemmy, d. 1864
Kamehameha II, King of the Hawaiian Islands
Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848
Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878
Subject
Adult Males
Place
Ash Island (N.S.W.)
Ballarat (Vic.)
Bungonia (N.S.W.)
Garden Island (N.S.W.)
Hunter River (N.S.W.)
Kurnell (N.S.W.)
Newcastle (N.S.W.)
Panshanger (Longford, Tas.)
Sydney Heads (N.S.W.)
Upper Fort Street (Millers Point, N.S.W.)
Vaucluse Bay (N.S.W.)
Vaucluse (N.S.W.)
Exhibited in

Charles Rodius - State Library of New South Wales (17 June 2023-12 May 2024). Applies to No. 18a
Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995). Applies to: Nos. i & 3
George Edwards Peacock - State Library of New South Wales (May 2002 - August 2002). Applies to: No.20
Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (May 1992 - October 1992). Applies to: No.29
Sydney Eccentrics: A Celebration of Individuals in Society - State Library of New South Wales (April 1999 - August 1999). Applies to: No.29
Charles Darwin: voyages and ideas that shook the world - Australian National Maritime Museum (March 2009 - August 2009). Applies to : Nos. 13-14