• Title
  Our trip to the Blue Mountains, N.S.W., 1860 / by Mrs B. H. Martindale [Mary Elizabeth Martindale]
• Creator
  Mary Elizabeth Martindale, d. 1902
• Call number
  PXA 2498
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1860
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  125215
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 19 watercolour drawings - 22 x 30.5 cm. or smaller - No.12 tear in bottom left hand corner
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Mary Elizabeth Martindale was the wife of Capt. Ben Hay Martindale, commissioner of railways, roads & bridges and superintendent of the electric telegraph in New South Wales
  
  Reference:
  Dictionary of Australian Artists / Joan Kerr (ed). Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992, p.518.
• Scope and Content
  1. [Title page, showing landscape view with bullock drawn cart in distance]
  2. [`Royal Express'] mail coach used on Great Western Road
  3a-b. Pilgrim Inn?, top of Lapstone Road, Blaxland
  4. [Untitled landscape]
  5. [Untitled landscape showing Chinese workers in foreground]
  6. Hartley Valley?
  7. [Untitled landscape]
  8. Descent from Mt York into valley near Little Hartley
  9. [Untitled town, showing streetscape, pedestrians & horsedrawn cart]
  10. [Passenger coach, probably on Great Western Road]
  11. Blue Mountain Inn?, Lawson [showing bullock drawn cart in foreground]
  12. [Untitled Inn]
  13. Bridge over Lett River at Hartley?
  14-16. [Untitled landscapes]
  17. Esk Bank House or The Grange, Lithgow [also shows two women sketching in foreground]
  18. The Grose Valley showing Govett's Leap
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  For a discussion of the sketchbook, see: John Low. The Martindale family and the sketchbook of Mary Elizabeth Martindale. Blue Mountains History Journal, issue 2, September 2011, pp 1-14. www.bluemountainsheritage.com.au/journal (accessed October 31, 2011)
• General note
  
  Microfilm available at CY1931
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824103
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some drawings are titled on reverse in pencil
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  bridges
  Chinese peoples
  country scenes
  hotels & taverns
  houses
  mountains
  stagecoaches
  streetscapes
  valleys
  
• Place
  Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains)
  Grose River Valley (N.S.W.)
  Hartley Region (N.S.W.)
  Lawson (N.S.W.)
  Lithgow (N.S.W.)
  

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