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Title
Georgiana Lowe - album of drawings of New South Wales views, ca. 1842-1850
Creator
Georgiana Lowe Sherbrooke, Viscountess, ca. 1813-1884
Call number
SAFE/PXD 390
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1842-1850
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
440114
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album (ca. 125 drawings comprising 96 watercolour and 29 pencil drawings) - 59.6 x 43 x 6.2 cm.
Scope and Content
1a. Banana [Tree] Sydney
1b. [Landscape watercolour]
2a. Zanthorrhaea / or Grass Tree / Nelson Bay / Sydney
2b. [unfinished pencil sketch]
3. Gum Tree / Sydney
4. Bamboo / Sydney
5. Native of S.En. Australia - method of ascending / Large Trees - when hunting the Opposum [i.e. Opossum] / Body hangs off .... / left arm ... / O.W.B. Wanderer H.M.S. / Sepr. 5 / 43
6. Gum Tree
7. 50 Miles from Sydney [landscape]
8. Illawarra
9. Nelson Bay Sydney [on mount below image]. Pyndar - / View from our drawing room window looking to the sea / the building our little farm [on reverse of mount]
10a. Asplenium / Nidus avis / Tivoli / NSW
10b. Jordon Creek
11a. Young Palm tree
11b. Gum
12a. On Mount Victoria / N.S.W. 1843
12b. Gum
13. Nelson Bay / Mr Lowe's place / 4 miles from Sydney [i.e. Bronte House]
14a. Nelson Bay / View from Mr Lowe's ...
14b. Nelson Bay
15a. From the gardens Nelson Bay
15b. Farm [from] Nelson Bay
15c. From the gardens Nelson Bay
16a. Nelson Bay.
16b, 16c, 17a. Nelson Bay [coastal views]
17b. Nelson Bay [property in view]
18. Pyndar / View from the sea shore looking W the house / The house was not finished when this view was taken / The verandah has been put up since [inscription on reverse of mount]
19a. Zamia / Nelson Bay
19b. Nelson Bay [view of Bronte House on hill]
19c. Illawarra
20. Nelson Bay [Bronte House in background]
21a. Waterfall Nelson Bay
21b. Nelson Bay [with settler's hut]
22. From Mount Victoria / Bathurst Road Weatherboard
23. Near Sydney [slab hut with North Sydney in the background]
24a. New South Wales / Mr Lowe's Constituency / St Vincent
24b. [unfinished pencil sketch]
25. The Weather board New South Wales Bathurst Road
26. Mount Kera from Dr Osborn's house / near Wollongong
27. Gigantic Lilly Illawara
28. Berrima / 50 miles from Sydney
29a. ... merang
29b. Illawara [dwelling beside river]
30a. [Landscape]
30b. [Landscape with building in foreground]
31a. Kembla / Illawarra
31b. [landscape with dwelling]
31c. Keera / Illawarra
32a. [Landscape with buildings]
32b. Old Bathurst road. Fish River
33a. Sydney [Woolloomooloo Bay with Potts Point to the right]
33b. Illawarra Lake / NSW
34a. Illawarra
34b. First sight of New South Wales from our ship
35a. St Jago / Cape de Verde Isles
35b. Bathurst Road
36a. [untitled]
36b. Port Macquarry [i.e. Macquarie]
37a. Victoria [Mount Victoria?]
37b. On Mount Victoria
37c. Sydney [Dawes Point]
38a. [Landscape]
38b. Penrith N.S.W. 1843
38c. Government House / Parramatta / June 20th 1843
39a. Northern [or Southern] Deserta / one of the Desertas
39b. Sydney Harbour [looking up harbour, entrance to Sydney Cove to the left]
39c. [Boat on river]
40a-b. Bathurst Road
40c. Mount Toma
41a. Near Sydney
41b. Blue Mountains Road to Bathurst
41c. Bathurst Road
42a. Arralewin [Araluen?] Mr Stokes Mt Vincent
42b. Illawarra
42c. Bathurst plains
43a. Aireen Galla / Kangaroo Grounds / April 2nd 1843 N.S.W.
43b. Sydney [possibly Potts Point, entrance to Woolloomooloo Bay]
44a. Bananas Nelson Bay / Sydney
44b. Sydney [Darling Point]
45a. Grass Plant
45b. Sydney [possibly Potts Point]
46a. Palm Illawarra
46b. Sydney [Harbour view]
47a. Brush / Balgonie / Illawarra
47b. Nelson Bay [landscape]
48a. Aireen Galla / 350 ft. Kangaroo Gound / NSW
48b. Old Bankia [i.e. Banksia] Tree / Nelson Bay
49a. Near Sydney [view of a cove]
49b. [unfinished pencil sketch]
49c. Point Piper / Near Sydney
50a. Near Sydney [on page below image]. From .... Balmain / Road [on reverse of image]
50b. Near Sydney
51a. Desertas
51b. Illawarra
51c. Rock of Lisbon
52. Heads from Sydney Macquarry [i.e. Macquarie] St.
53a. Illawarra
53b. Gums Sydney
54a-b. Kangaroo Grounds / Illawarra
55. New Government House / Town of Sydney lies on this side
56. Monument erected to the memory of La Perouse / Botany Bay
57a. View of Sydney from the verandah / of the old Government House ...
57b. [unfinished pencil sketch on reverse]
58a. Entrance of the Harbour / Sydney
58b. 2nd view of entrance of the Harbour / Sydney
59. Gigantic Lilly / 20ft high
60a. Woolongong [i.e. Wollongong] / N.S.W.
60b. [unfinished pencil sketch of sails on the reverse]
60c. Government House
61. Sydney Harbour Government House
62a. Mr Lowe's House / Nelson Bay
62b. [unfinished pencil sketch of house on reverse]
63. North Shore / Sydney
64. New Government House / Building in the distance like / a castle Government Stables / Gum tree / the New Government House / Building on the edge of the water / the bathing house Robert bathes / there every morning / The fort ...
65. Govett's Leap Mount Victoria / on the Bathurst Road
66. Sydney Woolloomooloo
67a. Nelson Bay / Sydney [Bronte House]
67b. [unfinished pencil sketch of landscape on reverse]
68a. Kangaroo Grounds / Illawarra N.S.W.
68b. Illawarra N.S. Wales
69a. [Landscape with road]
69b. Stockade / Illawarra
70a. Sydney Harbour / N S Wales
70b. N S Wales Sydney Harbour [Double Bay?]
71a. Woolongong [i.e. Wollongong, farm house]
71b. Cooloongatta [Alexander Berry's estate] / Shoalhaven / N.S.W.
72a. Mount Victoria / July / 1843
72b. [Landscape, Tempe House]
73. [Waterfall, with inscription on reverse that is difficult to read]
74. [Landscape of house by river]
System of arrangement
When originally catalogued, the drawings were numbered according to the album page they appeared on, rather than a sequential individual number. Drawings with a sketch on the reverse have been renumbered.
Access Conditions

Access via appointment
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

When received by the Mitchell Library in 1958, the drawings were mounted in an atlas folio with a broken cover but were subsequently re-housed and repaired by Messrs. Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Further treatment occurred in 1995-1996 when SLNSW Preservation Branch rebound the album.
Transferred from Mitchell Manuscripts (D 390) in 1991.
The drawings are dated from the period the Lowe's were in Australia, from 1842-1850.
Many pages house several drawings.
Nelson's Bay is now called Bronte.
No. 5 is titled on mount in Georgiana Lowe's hand, ""Native climbing a gum tree""
No. 72b has been identified as Tempe House after comparison with Elyard, Tempe and Harris (Mitchell Library SSV/1A).
Nos. 14a, 16a, 19c, 25, 36a, 40c, 50b, 60c were missing when received in 1959.
The donor, Rear-Admiral Sherbrooke, is the great-great-grand nephew of Georgiana and Robert Lowe. -- Reference: Sydney Morning Herald, 20 May 1858.
Digital order no:Album ID : 846166
Signatures / Inscriptions

Most drawings are titled on work at lower left or right, or below image on mount.
Only one drawing is signed.
Five drawings are dated 1843.
Creator/Author/Artist
Brierly, Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.), 1817-1894
Topic
banana palms
bush
colonial art
eucalypts
harbours
homesteads
houses
landscapes (artwork)
shrubs
slab huts
stockades
trees
Place
Berrima (N.S.W.)
Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains)
Bronte House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Government House (Bridge St., Sydney, N.S.W.)
Govetts Leap (N.S.W.)
Illawarra (N.S.W.)
Mount Victoria (N.S.W.)
Old Government House (Parramatta, N.S.W.)
Parramatta (N.S.W.)
Penrith (N.S.W.)
Point Piper (N.S.W.)
Port Macquarie (N.S.W.)
Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
Wollongong (N.S.W.)
Woolloomooloo (N.S.W.)
Exhibited in

The work of art - Australian women writers and artists - State Library of New South Wales (14 August, 1995 - 11 February, 1996). Applies to: Nos. 5-9, 11
The most useful Art: Architecture in Australia, 1788-1985 - State Library of New South Wales (August 1985 - March 1986). Applies to: Nos. 20, 61, 67a
Undercurrents - Parramatta Heritage Centre (October 2003 - January 2004). Applies to: No. 38c
Dockside : Sydney's working harbour, 1840-1875 - State Library of New South Wales (May 2008 - August 2008). Applies to: No.61
Built for the bush : the green architecture of rural Australia - Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (February 2010 - July 2010). Applies to : no.23
Lost Gardens - Museum of Sydney (July 2008 - December 2008). Applies to: No. 2a
Women Transported : Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories - Parramatta Heritage Centre (August 2008 - November 2010). Applies to: no. 36b