Scott family : mainly sketches compiled by Rose Scott, ca. 1882-1898

PXB 190

series

ca. 1882-1898

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Photographs

440144

items
Drawings - 8 pencil - watercolour drawings - 24.2 x 14.9 cm. or smaller
Photographs - 3 photographs - 16.5 x 21.3 cm. or smaller

Edith Isabella (Bell) Brown, was born in Surry Hills, Sydney to John Brown and his wife Eliza Charlotte (nee Edson). From 1894 to 1926, Edith worked as an art teacher at Sydney Technical College. As an artist, she was known for her china painting, earthenware, and porcelain. -- Reference: Reymond, M.B. "Brown, Edith" in Australian art pottery, 1900-1950 / editors, Kevin Fahy ... [et al.] ; essayist, Glenn R. Cooke ... [et al.] ; photography, Andrew Simpson. Sydney : Casuarina Press, 2004

1. [Dance, nineteenth century scene]. Photograph of a drawing with pencil sketch of a woman on mount. Inscribed on the reverse is part of a recipe, "raw linseed / equal parts ...."
2. [Landscape] / watercolour drawing by Edith J. Bell Brown
3. The Comet of [house with landscape, photograph of a drawing signed and dated, "M.T. Del. 27th Sept. 1882] / F. Channon, 1884-1885
4a-4b. Unfinished portrait pencil sketches [one figure is possibly George Reid]
5. [Solider or guard, sketches of face and profile]
6. [View of street with Bank of New South Wales and House, photoprint of photo overpainted in watercolour]
7. [Rose Scott? and two men, profile sketches], 30th May /[18]98
8. [William Lane]. Inscribed on reverse, "Attempt to remember / Mr Lane"
9. [Rose Scott? Portrait sketches]

The sketches were originally loose and hinged into an album at an unknown date.
From the `Scott family papers' (MLMSS 38 Mitchell Library)
This material is a small selection from the pictorial material donated as part of the Scott family papers.
A list of pictorial material from the Scott family collection, is available in the "Guide to the Papers of the Scott Family in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Part 1 (1979)", pp. 36-41, Mitchell Library.

One drawing is signed, "Edith J. Ball Brown" at lower left.
Photographer's stamp on reverse of No.3