[Minnie Strachan - scrapbook]

PXA 570

fonds

ca. 1872 [dated from dated poems in scrapbook]

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints, Textual Records

52145

1 scrapbook comprising 89 leaves with pencil drawings, prints, autographs, handwritten poems, dried plants - 30.2 x 24 cm.
6 loose sheets comprising pencil drawings and gouache drawings

Scrapbook comprises mainly prints and pencil drawings of European portraits, flora and printed religous ephemera.
3 pencil drawings have New South Wales content: "The Kirk Bathurst" (p.55) -- "Scene from nature near Westbourne" (p.63) -- "Westbourne" (p.77)

"The Kirk, Bathurst" identified as St. Stephens Presbyterian Church, Bathurst cf. John Waugh, St. Stephen's Bathurst 1832-1932, 1932, opp. p.16 ML REF. 285.1/W MITCHELL LIBRARY.

"A Token of Remembrance - To Miss Minnie Strachan from her affectionate friend Mrs J Rutherford" -- front end paper
2 pencil drawings, 1 loose and 1 tipped into scrapbook at f.77, are signed "M. Strachan"