• Title
  Drawings of Major's Creek and Braidwood, 1852-1858 / Phillip Parker King and William Essington King
• Creator
  Phillip Parker King, 1791-1856
  William Essington King, 1821-1910
• Call number
  PXA 561
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1852-1858
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs, Clippings
• Reference code
  845091
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  4 drawings - 3 pencil and 1 monochrome wash - 22.8 x 28.3 cm
  3 photographs - albumen
  1 clipping
  
• Scope and Content
  1. My Tent at Majors Creek. Braidwood. William Essington King, 1852. Pencil.
  
  1b (verso). Entrance to Government House, Sydney. Samuel Thomas Gill. ca. 1860. Lithograph and Newcastle. 1804? Albumen photograph of oil, ca. 1865
  
  2a. Majors Creek Diggings from my Tent Door. 1852. Phillip Parker King, probably. Pencil.
  
  2b (verso). Mrs Anna Josepha King. ca. 1830. photograph of miniature ; 2c. Mrs Riley, mother of Mrs W. E. King., ca. 1865. carte de visite ; 2d. W. E. Riley, father of Mrs W. E. King. Sepia toned photograph of watercolour.
  
  3. Major's Creek, 1852. Probably Phillip Parker King. Pencil.
  
  4a. Bells Paddock, 1858. Pencil.
  
  4b (verso). Two newscuttings of the bride and bridal party for the wedding of Miss Eacie Deshon and Mr Hannibal J. King, 16 May 1906. Newscuttings
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• Finding Aids
  Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Index entries are filed in the artist and topographical sections of the catalogue
  
  Keyword subjects:
  Majors Creek (N.S.W.)
  
  Copy Print : PXA 561
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:Album ID : 908596
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  One drawing is signed 'W/E. King', the others are attributed to Phillip Parker King or William Essington King from inscriptions on the works and comparisons with other works in the collection. Each drawing is dated and titled.
• Conservation note
  
  Each is laid onto light card of a similar size, wear at the edges of card suggests all the drawing were once bound in to the same album.
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  
• Place
  Braidwood (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE536636

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