Series 02: Photographs and prints of watercolour sketches of ships by Captain James William Holmes, Master Mariner, and C.H. Williams

PXE 1071

series

1863 - 1965

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Prints

52582

Photographic prints - albumen, gelatin silver
Prints - watercolour drawings

Captain James William Holmes (1855-1932) was a Master of sailing ships trading to Sydney in the 1890s and early 1900s.

References:
1. Voyaging, fifty years on the seven seas in sail / Captain James William Holmes, edited by Nora Coughlan. London : Hutchinson Group, 1965. Location number: 910.45/70A1 Mitchell Library
2. Colonial clippers / Basil Lubbock. Glasgow : James Brown and Son, 1921. Location number: 339.7/L Mitchell Library
3. Log of logs / Ian Nicholson. Queensland : A Roebuck Book. Location Number: Ref1 387.5099/3 Mitchell Library

SERIES 02 ITEM 01
Photographs and prints of watercolour sketches of ships by Captain James William Holmes, Master Mariner, and C.H. Williams
PXE 1071

Includes:
Portrait photographs of the Holmes family

Photographs of ships including; Cimba, Inverurie, Invergarry, Mountcalm, Mount Stewart, Mersey and Port Jackson

3 watercolors of ships by Captain James William Holmes and photographs of his paintings

J.W. Holmes business card

1 document wallet with gold embossed lettering : "Ship's papers ; Seaham Colliery Company Ltd, Abermain Colliery Company Ltd, Seaham & Abermain Collieries, H.C. Langwill, shipping manager Scott Street, Newcastle, Head Office: 4 O'Connell Street, Sydney, N.S.W. and at London. Valparaiso (Chili), & San Fransisco (Cal.) Per-Tons reg. Captain..."

No. 84 Emden sinking the Troilus

No. 142 Panel photograph of the Ancient Mariners' outing, Sydney (including Captains Holmes and James Ferrier)

SERIES 02 ITEM 02
John Holmes, ambrotype portrait, ca. 1860
MIN 331

Copyright status:: Watercolours in copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
Copyright holder:: Nora Coughlan
Out of copyright: Created before 1955 (photographs)
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Research & study copies allowed: Prints

An ambrotype of an uncle of Captain Holmes, John Holmes who drowned in the Richmond River N.S.W. in ca. 1867, has been transferred from Pic.Acc.615/2. Location number: MIN 331 Mitchell Library

PXE 1071/nos 39, 41, 44, 60, 85 are embossed with the blind stamp `Hood'. These appear to be early works by the photographer Sam Hood.

The Library holds additional pictorial material relating to Captain John William Holmes. See the Pictures card catalogue, Mitchell Library for these holdings.