• Title
  [Album of sketches of Macarthur family properties and European scenes]
• Creator
  G Bowen
  Agnes Macarthur, d.1849
  Anna (Annie) Macarthur, 1816-1852
  Charles Macarthur, 1820-1871
  Charles Runciman, active 1825-1867
  James Lethbridge Templer
• Call number
  PXD 526
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1832 - 1850
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  52220
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Albums - 81 watercolour, pencil and ink drawings, 2 prints - size of contents varies : album measured 35.2 x 27 cm - 31 of the drawings have been removed from the album and individually window-mounted
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Upper Hume. 1843. From MLeay's [?] Station Tooma on the Hume [Murray] River looking E.
  2. Tumut Plain. 1845 -- "C.McA 1845" lower centre
  3. Water fall over Basaltic rocks at Tumberumba Hume river NSW.
  4. Valley of Tumut -- "C. McA" lower left
  5. Col. Breton's place Illawarra NSW. 1842. -- "C. McA" lower right
  6. Nacki Nacki. Cottage. -- "J. McA" lower left
  7. Arthursleigh Sept. 20th 43 [?] -- "C. McA" lower left
  8. [Werrington homestead] -- "Agnes McA" lower left
  9. Werrington Oct 1847 R C Lethbridges Home -- "C. McA" lower left
  10. Werrington
  11. Ellerslie from the SW Nov. 18th./43
  12. Ellerslie from the East -- "C. McA" lower left
  13. Ellerslie Oct 22nd/43 -- "C. McA" lower left
  14. Ellerslie [cottage and kitchen garden?] Decr 1845 -- "C. McA" lower left
  15. NORTH RICHMOND Ferry -- "A.M. MacA Jany 12 1847" lower left
  16. Natives of N.S.W. -- "C McA" beneath sketch
  17. Australian A Co. Cattle Station on the Glouster N.S.W. -- "[?] MacA" beneath sketch
  18. Valley of the Grose and Blue Mountains NSW
  19. St.Mary's S[outh] Creek N.S.W.
  20. St. Mary's NSW
  21. A.J. King [grave] -- "J.L. Templer" at lower right
  22. Cottage occupied by H.H. McArthur Esqr. North Brisbane Moreton Bay. 25 April 1850
  23. Vineyard as completed
  24. Vineyard
  25. The Vineyard Parramatta N.S.W Before completion
  26. [Vineyard] -- "C McA" at lower left
  27. Gardeners Cottage Vineyard
  28. Vineyard Mill- -- "G Bowen" lower left
  29. [Unidentified garden]
  30. Sketches at Vineyard [includes the Lodge]
  31. Entrance to P. Phillip
  32-47. [European scenes and maritime paintings]
  48. Ellerslie
  49. Parramatta River -- "Helenie 1844" at lower right
  50. [European Cottage] -- "Runciman Fecit" lower left
  51-83. [European scenes and maritime paintings]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artists died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This album was owned by Charles Macarthur (1820-1871). It was split up when offered for sale by Kenneth Hince at auction on 29 August 1985. The Library has subsequently acquired three more of the parts first offered in the sale - see public source note.
  See PXn 850 for a superseded contents list for PXD 526.1-22.
  PXD 526/18 appears to be a copy of plate 10 (opp. p.154) "Valley of the Grose", which was published in Sir Thomas Mitchell's Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, 1838, 981/2D1 Mitchell Library.
  For a description of the Kenneth Hince sale, which includes Tasmanian material, see Kenneth Hince Book Auctions...Catalogue..29 August 1985 lots 31-42, Q017.4 M. Librn's Room Mitchell Library.
  Ellerslie ... (nos 11-13) relate to another pencil drawing "Ellerslie looking NE. 1843 C McA", photoprint at SPF/N.S.W. - RESIDENCES - ELLERSLIE, 1843. Ellerslie [cottage and kitchen garden?] (no. 14) relates to "Ellerslie as it was in 1846 C McA", SPF/N.S.W. - RESIDENCES - ELLERSLIE, 1846. Other photoprints of drawings by Charles Macarthur are at N.S.W. - RESIDENCES - BENDINNE, 1846; - COPE COPE, 1859; and - MANAR HOUSE, BRAIDWOOD (Pic.Acc.1485; negs at FM2/665).
  Vineyard Mill (no. 28) closely resembles another pencil drawing attributed to Edward Close, photoprint at SPF/N.S.W. - RESIDENCES - VINEYARD, 1830. Other drawings which relate to those of Vineyard (nos. 23-30) are reproduced in My dear Miss Macarthur ... / Jane De Falbe. Kenthurst [N.S.W.] : Kangaroo Press, 1988, p.14,17,19. Location number: 994.4020924/M116.1/1. See also Pic.Acc. 6208 Mitchell Library for photographic prints from original albums containing these and other drawings by members of the Macarthur family.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 954580
• Name
  Australian Agricultural Company
  Breton, Major Henry William
  King, Anna Josepha, 1765-1844
  Macarthur family
  Macarthur, Hannibal, 1788-1861
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  farm buildings
  farms
  graves
  homesteads
  pioneers
  waterfalls
  watermills
  
• Place
  Arthursleigh Station (Goulburn, N.S.W.)
  Blue Mountains (N.S.W.)
  Bogong Mountains (N.S.W.)
  Brisbane (Qld.)
  Church of St. Mary Magdalene (St. Marys, N.S.W.)
  Ellerslie station (Murrumbidgee, N.S.W.)
  Grose River Valley (N.S.W.)
  Illawarra (N.S.W.)
  Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.)
  Nacka Nacka cottage (Murrumbidgee, N.S.W.)
  St. Marys (N.S.W.)
  Tooma station (Murrumbidgee, N.S.W.)
  Tumbarumba (N.S.W.)
  Tumut (N.S.W.)
  Werrington House (Penrith, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  King Family exhibition and reunion - Old Government House (Parramatta, N.S.W.) (7 October - 4 November, 2000)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE966075

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