• Title
  Botanical sketches / Sir Thomas Mitchell
• Creator
  Thomas Mitchell, Sir, 1792-1855
• Call number
  PXD 627
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1830s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  52402
• Physical Description
  1 album (14 drawings) - pencil, watercolor, ink - 51 x 60 cm (album)
  
• Scope and Content
  PXD 627/1-6 are pencil drawings, PXD 627/7-14 are watercolour drawings.
  
  1. Bottle tree
  2a. Acacia paradoxa
  2b. [billabong]
  3. [tree]
  4. [tree]
  5. Shepherd [...] St. Georges Bridge
  6. [5 botanical studies on 1 sheet] Nancipus Pictium; Hycacinth Romanus; violet; [rose]; Lillium Cantidum
  7. [Fonte das lagrimas, near Coimbra]
  8. Fonte dad lagrimas, near Coimbra
  9. Capparis Mitchellii 18 November
  10. From River Head Range 23 May [unidentified botanical illustration]
  11. Fruit of the Quandang 11 November
  12. Cucumber. bank of the Gwydir
  13. Ceresiformae Myoporum
  14a. Ceresiformae Myoporum
  14b. [Mountain profile]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Many of the drawings are dated by day and month only, and are inscribed in Mitchell's hand with descriptions of locations of the botanical specimens, aide-memoire notes about colours and proper botanical names.
• Date note
  
  Dated broadly by Sir Thomas Mitchell's exploration expeditions in Australia.
• Open Rosetta viewer
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