• Title
  Item 2: Album of pencil sketches by Mary Stephen, nee Hindmarsh, 1836-1853
• Call number
  PXA 6921
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1836, 1839-1841, 1846, 1853
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  442413
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 2 pages only selected for digitisation
  
• Physical Description
  1 sketchbook (pencil and ink drawings) - 18.5 x 27.4 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Sketchbook with marbled cover and storage for pencil along upper edge of the front cover made of leather.
  
  COASTAL PROFILES
  1. Linguanea Island N.W., 21 December 1836 / Cape Wiles N. 1/2 W., 25 December 1836 / Cape Catastrophe E. By N., 21 December 1836. Thistles Island (now called Cape Flinders)
  3. Cape Wiles. N.E., 22 Decemeber 1836 / Cape Avoid, N., 22 December 1836 / Cape Flinders N.E. by N., 23 December 1836 / Williams Island N.E., 23 December 1836 / Thistle's Island. N.E. by E., 23 December 1836
  4-5. William's Island N. by E. (probably) / Smith's Island N by W. / N.N.E. / N.N.E. 1/2 E.
  6-7. S.E. 1/2 E. / Thistle Island / E. 1/2 N.
  9. Port Lincoln. / Cape Donnington / S.W. by S. / Bicken Islands / ... / Grantham Island, 24 December 1836 / South extremity of Boston Islands
  10-11. Kangaroo Island / E. by N. / smoke (two coastal profiles)
  12-13. Kangaroo Island off shore 2 1/2 miles 29 fathoms water, 26 December 1836, S.W. by W.
  17. Landscape, unfinished pencil sketch
  
  LANDSCAPE VIEWS, FIGURE STUDIES, AND MISCELLANEOUS SKETCHES
  18. Study of a face - four paritially completed pencil sketches
  19. Tahiti (soldier with musket beneath palm tree), M.S.
  23. Female figure
  25. Two soldiers and a gentlemen, 1846. M.S.
  27. From the Isabella Watson (sailing ship) / 5 February 1846
  31. Trees and a building, unfinished sketch
  33. Man on road with tree to the left, unfinished sketch
  34. Pastor Petersen Heligoland
  37. River scene with figures and large cross, 12 March 1841
  39. Woman's face
  41. Man holding cloak (probably)
  43. Man wearing hat adorned in feathers holding swor
  44-45. Hobson's Bay - Port Phillip, / taken from the beach of St Kilda / by M.S. / August 1853
  47. Four groups of figures
  49. "McGill" / three miles from Adelaide S.A., May 20 1840. M.H.
  52. Glenelg, 26 December 1839. M.H.
  56. Landing the Emigrants at Glenelg from the "Caroline / Moffat" & "Duchess of Northumberland," 20 December 1839. M.H.
  59. Customs House, Glenelg, 21 December 1839. M.H.
  62. Beach scene (possibly Glenleg) 30 December 1839. M.H.
  64-65. St Vincent / Cape de Verde Isles / E.S.E.
  68. Sailing ship, three studies
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Variant title
  
  Nos. 17-19, 23, 25, 31, 33, 37, 39, 41, 43, 47, 62, and 68: Titles designated by cataloguer.
• General note
  
  ""M.S."" represents Mary Stephen, being the arist's married name.
  Many pages of the sketchbook are blank. Only pages with drawings have been listed above.
  Some drawings extend over two pages of the sketchbook.
  Pages 14-15, 20-21, 38-39 were removed from the volume at an uknown date.
  Nos. 23, 39 and 41 are faint sketches and appear to be erased. No.41 has text that is difficult to discern.
  Nos. 27 and 41 are executed upside-down.
  No.62 may depict a view of Glenelg and the mouth of Patawalongi Creek (1/2 mile west of old gum tree) as identified by Senator K.A. Laught of South Australia in 1965.
  From the Papers of the Wilkinson family of Pokolbin, N.S.W., ca. 1835-1954, including letters, sketches and printed items (A 6920 - A 6924).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 877642
  Includes views of Port Phillip and South Australia.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  At front of volume in pencil, ""Lionel V.H. Stephen / with his mother's love / 1880""
  Underneath above dedication in pen, ""Mary Hindmarsh / South Australia / 1836""
  On last page of album, ""Mary Hindmarsh""
  Some drawings are initialled ""M.H."" and three bear ""M.S.""
  Several drawings are titled.
  A few sketches are dated.
  Nos. 25 signed on reverse, 44-45 panorama, titled on reverse, 59 title taken from p.58.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Stephen, Mary, Mrs G. M.
  
• Place
  Cape Catastrophe (s. Aust.)
  Cape Wiles (S. Aust.)
  Glenelg (S. Aust.)
  Kangaroo Island (S. Aust.)
  Port Lincoln (S. Aust.)
  Port Phillip Bay (Vic.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Visions of Adelaide, 1836-1886 - Art Gallery of South Australia (28 October, 2005 - 5 February, 2006). Applies to: f.56

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