• Title
  Scenes in New South Wales, 1856-1857 / Mrs Allan Macpherson
• Call number
  PXA 3819
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1856-1857
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  449001
• Physical Description
  Albums - 1 Ackermann commercial sketchbook, cardboard covers, containing 15 watercolours and 2 pencil sketches - 20 x 28 cm. - spine damaged
  
• Collection history
  Presented by Sir Norman Kater on behalf of Oona Blake (1893-1969), daughter of Allan and Emma Macpherson’s second son Ewan. Reference: A private empire [notes on illustrations] / Stephen Foster. Millers Point, N.S.W. : Pier 9, 2010
• Scope and Content
  1. Government House Sydney
  2. Cottage at Cooks River near Sydney
  3. Balmain North Shore Sydney
  4. Sydney Harbour from Paddington
  5. Sydney Heads
  6. Encampment in the Bush
  7-8. Rocky River Diggings
  9. The Burning Mtn - Mount Wingen in the distance
  10. Mount Wingen. The Burning Mountain
  11. Scone Hunters River District
  12. Crossing the Hunter in a flood
  13. Cockatoo Island Sydney
  14. Bernera Cottage [loose sheet in sketchbook]
  15. [Rudimentary, unfinished pencil sketch]
  16. Albany Kg Georges Sound
  17. [Blank]
  18. [Rudimentary, unfinished pencil sketch]
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Contents list held with album
  All sketches unsigned and undated. Dates sourced from the artist's publication "My experiences in Australia. Being recollections of a visit to the Australian colonies in 1856-7. By a lady.", in which 4 sketches (6,7,16,17) are reproduced (London: JF Hope, 1860. ML 981/M)
  A printed price list for R. Ackermann products is affixed to each inside cover of album
  Brief notes about the Macpherson property affixed to p.1 of the album, written by the donor (with Allan misspelt)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823698
• Topic
  bushfires
  camps
  country scenes
  harbours
  headlands
  houses
  islands
  mountains
  official buildings
  rivers
  
• Place
  Albany (W.A.)
  Balmain (N.S.W.)
  Cockatoo Island (N.S.W.)
  Cooks River (N.S.W.)
  Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Hunter River (N.S.W.)
  King George Sound (W.A.)
  Scone (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Heads (N.S.W.)
  

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