• Title
  Sketches, 1840-1848 / John Skinner Prout
• Creator
  John Skinner Prout, 1805-1876
• Call number
  DL PX 49
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1840-1848
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  853130
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : DL PX 49
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  9 drawings - pencil - various sizes
  
• Scope and Content
  The scenes are mostly of places around Sydney, but there are some in Tasmania and the Illawarra.
  
  f.1 Bondi - N.S.W
  f.2 Quarantine Burying Ground Port Jackson
  f.3 On the Nieve [ sic ] at Marlbro V.D.L.
  f.4 Mount Kembla Illawarra
  f.5 Pick'd up at a picnic Oyster Bay Sydney, Nov - 4 - 46
  f.6 [Bottle & Glass from Vaucluse]
  f.7 Scarbro Bay N.S.W
  f.8 [Scene showing man with bottles sitting near rocks]
  f.9 Bush Eroulee, July 41
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955.
  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
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  All the sketches are signed 'J.S. Prout' or 'J.S.P.'. All sketches are titled. The cover is titled 'Sketches/J.S. Prout'.
• Date note
  
  Five sketches are dated between 1841 and 1846. The undated sketches are attributed to the time of Prout's stay in Australia.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  views
  
• Place
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Illawarra (N.S.W.)
  Tasmania
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8670225

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