Scrapbook compiled by Anna Josepha King, Elizabeth King (nee Macarthur) and others, 1824-1878.

PXA 723

fonds

1824-1878

Graphic Materials, Prints, Photographs, Watercolours, Drawings, Ephemera, Textual Records

52259

1 scrapbook with 132 pages containing prints, albumen photoprints, watercolour and pencil drawings (most pasted onto album pages) - 23 x 19.5 cm. (outside meas. of album); size of individual contents varies
18 loose items including 1 Christmas card with dried fern arrangement

Presented by Jane Maria Hall to Anna Josepha King, 1832. Thence to Elizabeth King, nee Macarthur (granddaughter of Anna Josepha King; daughter of Hannibal Macarthur and Anna Maria King; wife of Philip Gidley King the younger). Thence to Elizabeth Maria (Bessie) Goldfinch, nee King (daughter of Elizabeth and Philip Gidley King the younger; mother of Sir Philip Henry Macarthur Goldfinch).

Album in dark green morocco binding with elaborate blind embossed decorations on front cover; back cover missing, front cover detached, spine and stitching loose. Gold lettering on spine: 'Album'; 'De La Rue & Co.'. Moire silk patterned endpapers, coloured pages throughout, a few with decorative printed borders.

The English contributions are by members of the Hall and Campbell families, mostly dated ca. 1832 before the return of Anna Josepha King to New South Wales. The Australian contributions are mostly be members of the King and (Hannibal) Macarthur families, or relatives by marriage. Many items date from 1849-1851 when some of the family members were at Gladfield, or nearby stations such as Goomburra, on the Darling Downs. There are also items added at Stroud, Tahlee, Manar and Ellerslie (the last two in southern New South Wales).

The following is a partial list of items:

10-12. Miseries of a Female Voyager, M.C. March 1832, [ms poem]
20. To Struggle when Hope is banished H[annibal] H[awkins] McArthur, Gladfield [Darling Downs, Qld] 18th June 1851 [ms poem]
21. A general rush of persons to the Diggings Sydney July 1851 [ms poem]
25. Bolivia [Station, near Tenterfield, NSW, ca. 1860? 2 albumen photoprints]
29. Mr Irby's Bolivia [Station, near Tenterfield, NSW, ca. 1860? 2 albumen photoprints]
30. Ellangowan Darling Downs 1865; [boy on Shetland pony. 2 albumen photoprints]
31. Prizes taken by P.R. Co[mpan]y, 1 albumen photoprint
34. Ellerslie [station, near Goulburn, N.S.W. Probably by Charles Macarthur, ref. PXD 526, pencil drawing]
34. [Construction of timber hut, 1 albumen photoprint]
36. Mount Edgecombe, Devonport [1 watercolour on embossed card (see also DGA 71)]
44. Ellerslie, C. McA [Charles Macarthur], March 16th 1850, Manar [ms poem]
51. [Rondel view of] Orphan House, Sydney 1804 Corner of Bridge Street and George Street (see similar views of Sydney buildings reproduced in 'Historical Records of New South Wales'(1898), v. U, opp. p.1. These are noted as being in the possession of the Hon. P.G. King, see p. lxvii); [2 lozenge-shaped cut-outs of Aborigines in canoes. 3 watercolours]
52. Rose Hill Cottage, Parramatta [by] S.E.G. Hall [2 pencil drawings]
57-58. O! Praise the Lord for his Mercy! His Mercy endureth forever - H[annibal] H[awkins] McArthur, Stroud, 25th Sept. 1853 [ms poem]
60. [Caricature of porter with trunk, by] P.P. King [1 watercolour]
68; 70.[Aborigine (?) in 'coolie' hat; Aborigine with leg-irons, carrying pick-axe, by] Mrs Baldock [Charles Macarthur's first wife was Agnes Baldock], 2 watercolours on blind-embossed cards
72. Earth is not the Christian's home, Chas. F.D. Priddle, St James', 6th April 1850 [ms poem]
75. View of Mount Dumeresq [sic] from Gladfield Cottage verandah 1851 [by] Conrad Martens [1 pencil drawing]
76. Gladfield Cottage 1851 [by] Conrad Martens, Decr. 29 1851 [1 pencil drawing]
78. [untitled poem] M.G. [i.e. Mary Gordon, nee Macarthur], Manar, 1st Jany 1849 [ms poem]
81. Arthursleigh, Wollondilly River [by Charles Macarthur?] [1 pencil drawing]
82. [They have changed and new modelled the aspect old of that loved spot ... ] H.H. McArthur, January 1st, 1849 [ms poem]
83. He sent redemption to his people Psalm 1110.9, H.H. McArthur, Goomburra, March 27th. 1853 [ms]
84. Inscription 'Government house, Parramatta 1806-' [item has been removed]
87. Inscription 'Government House, Sydney. 1805. A.J. King' [item has been removed]
97-100. Be Kind; Speak Gently! M.McA Gordon [surname erased], Newstead [Brisbane], June 7. 1850 [2 ms poems]
102. The Idol, 10th April 1850, Tahlee [New South Wales. ms poem]
105. 'As the day, so shall thy strength be', A.H. Macarthur, Canning Downs, 18th Novr 1850 [ms poem]
112-117. [Lines on the Constellation of the Cross in the Southern Hemisphere, ms poem]
123. The Bottle Tree - a species of Currajong near Lynd's Range, 1 pencil drawing]
126. [Mausoluem with palm trees] E.M.M. August 1850 [1 pencil drawing]
132. [Poem] E.I. Macarthur, Gladfield, October 16th 1851 [ms]
137. [Native orchid], 3rd June 1862. Drawn by Willie Roberts. [1 watercolour]
138. [Christmas card with dried fern arrangement] With many good wishes Xmas 1878
139. Pencil sketch of a hillside, possibly Australian

Out of copyright: Artists died before 1955. Applies to artworks.
Out of copyright: Created before 1955. Applies to photographs.

Inscribed f. 1:
'For Her valued Friend Mrs [Anna Josepha] King From Her sincerely attached Jane Maria Hall March 1832' [in one hand] 'and to dear Elizabeth King of Stroud April 10: 1850.' [in a second hand] 'and to E.M. Goldfinch 1899' [in a third hand]

King Family exhibition and reunion - Old Government House (Parramatta, N.S.W.) (7 October - 4 November, 2000)
In the garden - Parramatta Heritage Centre