• Title
  Drawings in and around Sydney, 1834-36 / [attributed to] Robert Russell
• Creator
  Robert Russell, 1808-1900
• Call number
  DL PX 4
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1834-1836
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Clippings, Textual Records
• Reference code
  446780
• Physical Description
  1 album (28 pencil sketches, 1 newscutting, 1 manuscript note) - 12 x 19 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Inside front cover [notes on provenance - see inscription]
  i. Newscutting titled Melbourne : Russell's great plan by W. J. Hughston
  1. at Parramatta Decr/35
  2. at Parramatta Decr/35
  3. Gardeners House at Mrs. Darlings Point (near Sydney) Dec/35
  4. Prisoners Barracks &c Sydney, Back view Jan/36
  5. Bridge in Mitchells Pass from sk: by Martens May/36 [A view of Lennox Bridge, Lapstone Hill]
  6. old Mill at Gov. Domain Feb/35 [A view of Comissary General Palmer's Mill with Sydney Harbour & part of Government House Stables, the site of Boston's now demolished mill, in the background. Palmer's Mill was demolished ca. 1836.]
  7. view near S.E. corner of Hyde Park Sydney Feb/36 [with Farm Cove on the right and the Catholic Chapel and unfinished Sydney College on the left]
  8. Double Bay near Sydney Feb/36
  9. The late C.G.[?] : Laidleys Home Woolloomoolloo, near Sydney Dec/36 [a view of Rosebank]
  10. Botany Bay! 1835
  11. St. James Church &c Sydney, From the Back - sk: Feb 17/36
  12. Bondi Bay Sk: Jan/36
  13. La Perouse Mont. Botany Bay sk: Nov. 1834
  14. Catholic Chapel &c Sydney Sk: Jan 36
  15. Bathing place Domain - Sydney
  17. Bondi Sk: Mar 6/36 near Sydney
  18. Bondi Sk: March 6/36
  19. Bondi - Skd. March 6/36
  20. The Light House near Sydney - March 26/36 [a view of Macquarie Lighthouse]
  21. The Bottle & glass - near Sydney - March 26/36 (Sydy. Cove)
  22. Toll House Sydney March/36 [a view with the Benevolent Asylum]
  23. near Sydney March 24/36
  24. Rocks at Jacobs Ladder March 26/36
  25. Gov. Bathing House Sk Sep 17/35
  26. Police Office (market in distance) Skd. April 9/36
  27. Mr. Smiths House Glenrock - Skd. April 3/36
  28. Govt. Stables Skd. April 9/36
  29. Prisoners Barracks Hyde Park - Skd. April 11/36 [a view with the porch of St. James' Church]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Attributed to Robert Russell by J. L. Russell and by comparison with other sketches by him in the Library, particularly `Sketches in & around Sydney / Robert Russell' (ML Ref. PXA 71).
  See contents list re notes on comparisons to Conrad Martens' work, where it is thought to be unlikely his work. For example no. 5 is dated 1834, Martens arrived in Sydney in 1835.
  Descriptions in square brackets supplied by cataloguer, July 1967
  No. 16 is not present in sketch book
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823515
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  `I J. L. Russell do hereby attest and guarantee that this book which contains 28 pencil drawings of Old Sydney and dated 1835 and 1836 are the original drawings of my late father Robert Russell Surveyor-General of Victoria [signed] J. L. Russell' -- note pasted inside front cover
  `This statement is not correct. The pictures are good specimens of the work of Conrad Martens. [signed] Lionel Lindsay. 26 March 1928' -- on outside of above note
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  children
  
• Topic
  barracks
  bridges
  horsedrawn carts
  churches
  cliffs
  houses
  lighthouses
  monuments & memorials
  official buildings
  official residences
  parks
  police stations
  stables
  tollhouses
  wagons
  windmills
  
• Place
  Bathing House, Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Bondi (N.S.W.)
  Bottle and Glass Rocks (Port Jackson, N.S.W.)
  Bounty Bay
  Darling Point (N.S.W.)
  Domain, The (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Double Bay (N.S.W.)
  George Street Markets (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Glenrock (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
  Government House Stables (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Hyde Park Barracks (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Hyde Park (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  La Perouse Monument (Botany Bay, N.S.W.)
  Lennox Bridge (Lapstone, N.S.W.)
  Macquarie Lighthouse (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Rose Bank (Darlinghurst, N.S.W.)
  St. James' Church (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  St. Mary's Cathedral (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Toll Gate (Parramatta Road, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Woolloomooloo (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Villas of Darlinghurst - State Library of New South Wales (28 January - 23 June, 2002). Applies to: no.9
  Any news of La Perouse? - State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: no.13

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