[Photographs of the Scott and Beit Families]

PXE 1038

fonds

ca. 1840 - ca. 1878

Graphic Materials, Photographs

52787

Photographs - albumen photoprints - silver gelatin photoprints - watercolour

1. Newlands on the banks of the Parramatta River opposite Howell's Mill, watercolour, ca. 1840. Painted by Beit.
2. `Great Grandmother Beit', ca. 1865, hand-tinted albumen photoprint. (Possibly grandmother ?).
3. `Great Grandfather Beit', ca. 1865, hand-tinted albumen photoprint. (Possibly grandfather) ?).
4. Group portrait, Blundell School, Tiverton, England. Albumen photoprint, late 1880s. (Rev. W. Scott sixth from right, bottom row).
5. `Great Grandfather Beit and his daughters in England', photograph of a painting ca. 1810 - 1820. Sepia t-toned gelatin bromide, ca. 1920.
6. `Rev. William Scott, Warden of St. Paul's College, 1865 - 1878', mounted photoprint, ca. 1920. Copy of bromide photoprint, ca. 1880.
7. `Winderradean, Collector, Goulburn', Albumen photoprint of Beit family home.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955

1. `Rev. William Scott came out about 1854 to be in charge of the Observatory and he lived in Macquarie Street while this was built. There are references to the Rev. William Scott in Sydney Observatory Papers no.31. He was warden of St. Paul's College from 1865 until 1878'. Extract from notes on file.
2. Newlands was at one time the home of John Nicholas Beit. Reference: Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3, 1851 - 1890 / Geoffrey Serle and Russel Ward. Carlton : Melbourne University Press, 1976. Location number: 920.094/7J Mitchell Library