• Title
  Views N.S. Wales / [collection of watercolour drawings by Augustus Earle]
• Creator
  Augustus Earle, 1793-1838
• Call number
  PXD 265
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1825 -1828
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  421049
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  11 watercolours
  
• Scope and Content
  11 watercolours - a number on two sheets joined together, once bound into an album, but now each drawing has been removed and mounted separately.
  
  1. Moolong Plains, near Wellington Valley. N.S.Wales -- 29.3 x 53.3 cm
  2. View of the farm of J. Hassel [Hassell] Esqr. Cow Pastures, New South Wales. -- 17.7 x 51.7 cm
  3. A view in Parramatta N.S. Wales looking East -- 17.7 x 52.1 cm
  4. Bathurst Plains and Settlement. New South Wales. -- 24.2 x 75.5 cm
  5. Macquarie [Port Macquarie] -- 19.3 x 98.7 cm
  6. View of Port Maquarie [Macquarie] N.S. Wales -- 22.4 x 56.7 cm
  7. Port Stevens [Stephens] N.S.W. looking East -- 24.3 x 85.6 cm
  8. Port Stevens [Stephens] N.S. Wales -- 24 x 65.5 cm
  9. Five Islands, off the coast of Illawarra, N.S.W. -- 17.8 x 53.1 cm
  10. Illawarra, N.S. Wales -- 17.6 x 25.5 cm
  11. The Five Islands District, Illawarra. N.S.Wales -- 28.6 x 54.2 cm
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Attributed to Earle after comparison with other examples of Earle's watercolours, especially those held in the Pictorial Collections of the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Earle travelled widely throughout New South Wales during his time in the colony.
  Tahlee is visible in the foreground of no. 7
  A "Corbett Binders City Chambers 243 Pitt St Sydney" label is pasted into front cover of old album
  
  A David Scott Mitchell book plate is pasted on front endcover of old album
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823851
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Watercolours are titled on labels, once pasted beneath sketches on paper mounts, and now separately mounted with drawings
  Collection titled from title embossed onto old album cover, which is now stored separately but with the drawings
• Date note
  
  Dated from Earle's residence in New South Wales
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  panoramic views
  
• Place
  Bathurst (N.S.W.)
  Cowpastures, The (N.S.W.)
  Five Islands Group, The (N.S.W.)
  Illawarra (N.S.W.)
  Molong (N.S.W.)
  Parramatta (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
  Parramatta River (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
  Port Macquarie (N.S.W.)
  Port Stephens (N.S.W.)
  Tahlee (N.S.W.)
  Wellington (N.S.W)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (5 June - 13 August, 2006). Applies to: no.3
  Women Transported : Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories - Parramatta Heritage Centre (August 2008 - November 2010). Applies to: vol.1 no.4
  Charles Darwin Down Under 1836 - State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: no.4
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (July 2010 - October 2010). Applies to: no. 2, 6, 9
  The Governor : Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 (Travelling exhibition) - State Library of New South Wales (November 2010 - March 2012). Applies to : no. 4
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1047447

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