• Title
  Views mainly of Sydney, Wollongong, New England, Cook's River, Hawkesbury River, Norfolk Island, Hobart and Franklin Valley, and Moreton Bay, ca. 1846-1857 / M.C. Denison
• Creator
  M. C. Denison
• Call number
  DG*D 4
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1846-1857
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints, Photographs
• Reference code
  839995
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  53 drawings - pencil, ink and watercolour
  11 photographic prints
  1 print - lithograph
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Valley with hills in the background - Watercolour
  2. 'Gully. New England' - Pencil white
  3. Four people sheltering from the rain under a tree trunk - Pencil
  4. 'The Iron Pot Light' - Watercolour
  5. Landscape - Watercolour
  6. 'On the Hawkesbury' - Watercolour
  7. Four people sheltering from the rain under a tree trunk - Watercolour
  8. Four people sheltering from the rain under a tree trunk - Two tone wash
  9. Waterside view - Pencil
  10. 'Bark Hut - Cook's River' - Monotone wash
  11. Cross on a beach with mountain in background - Monotone wash
  12. Lake with castle cattle on the side of the water and fishing boats - Monotone wash
  13. 'Bottle & Glass Watson's Bay' - Monotone wash
  14. Bottle & Glass Watson's Bay- Monotone wash
  15. Landscape with cattle, tree and mountains - Pencil
  16. View of Sydney Harbour, including Fort Denison - Monotone wash
  17. Silhouette of mansion - Monotone wash
  18. Landscape with fence - Pencil
  19. 'Pycara Waterfall' - Watercolour
  20. View of Heads - Two tone wash
  21. 'Tombe of Major Owens & Judge Bent - on Garden Island' - Pencil and wash
  22. 'Franklin Valley - Moreton Bay' - Watercolour
  23. 'Wollongong'New South Wales - Watercolour
  24. 'Bathing House Sydney June 22nd' - Pencil and wash
  25. Wollongong, New South Wales - Two tone wash
  26. 'Beach. Wollongong' - Watercolour
  27. View of water with mountains in background, and sailing ship - Watercolour
  28. 'Manly Beach' - Two tone wash
  29. 'Pittwater. Broken Bay' - Watercolour
  30. Government House, Sydney ? - Pencil
  31. Forest Scene - Pencil
  32. House and Headland - Monotone wash
  33. Fort Denison and harbour - Watercolour
  34. Fort Macquarie with paddle steamer in foreground - Pencil
  35. Mountain scene - Two tone wash
  36. Two wooden posts in foreground, water and hill in background - Monotone wash
  36v. Sketch of religious ceremony - Pencil
  37. 'Grentham'- North Shore - Pencil
  38. Sea scape with buildings on far bank - Two tone wash
  39. View of harbour with jetty in foreground - Monotone wash
  40. View of harbour with jetty in foreground - Monotone wash
  41. Flowers 'A E B 1846' - Watercolour
  42. Landscape with man and woman in centre - Watercolour
  43. Sydney Harbour showing Fort Denison - Pencil
  44. Landscape with man and woman in centre - Watercolour
  45. 'Jacob's Ladder, South Head' - Watercolour
  46. View of Harbour including a few houses and a sailing ship - Pencil
  47. 4 men in fishing boat rowing towards the shore - Watercolour
  48. 'Blowhole se from The Forester's Penin. side of E.H. Neck M.C.D. 1854.' - Pencil
  49. 'View in Middle Harbour' - Two tone wash
  50. Overhanging rock, steps trees and water ? Mrs Macquarie's Chair - Two tone wash
  51. View of North Head - Watercolour
  52. Fort Macquarie with paddle steamer in foreground - Two tone wash
  53. Ship which has run aground, island in the background, Two fishermen in the foreground - Watercolour
  54. 'Norfolk Island / Scene in the Interior. June 1855.' Allan & Wigley Printers. Sydney. J. Glen Wilson, H.M.S. Herald - Lithograph
  55. Bearded man lying down - Photograph
  56. 'Ann Namoi [Naomi] & Jane Nobbs', [1857] - Photograph by Matthew Fortescue Moresby
  57. Five children - Photograph
  58. Five children - Photograph
  59. Portrait group including two dogs - Photograph by Alfred Seeley, Richmond Hill
  60. Portrait of a Persian ? - Photograph
  61. Portrait of a Persian ? - Photograph
  62. 'Australian Aborigines - King George Sound' - Photograph
  63. 'Australian Aborigines - King George Sound' - Photograph
  64. 'Aborigines of King George Sound South Australia' - Photograph
  65. Field, with mill in background - Photograph
  
  A detailed contents list is with the sketches.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  When acquired the sketches and photographs were loose in an album which has now been discarded.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some of the views are titled, and a few have 'M.C. Denison' written in ink on the back. One is signed 'M.C.D.' and dated 1854, another is signed 'A.E.B. 1846'.
  
  One of the 11 photographs has a caption 'Ann Namoi & Jane Nobbs' and 3 of Aborigines of King George Sound, South Australia.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  The sketches do not appear to be in the same style as those by Mary Charlotte Denison at A2037.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Aboriginal Australians.
  
• Place
  New England (N.S.W.)
  Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.)
  Cooks River (N.S.W.)
  Moreton Bay (Qld.)
  Wollongong (N.S.W.)
  South Coast (N.S.W.)
  Norfolk Island
  Franklin River (Tas.)
  Hobart (Tas.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  
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