• Title
  Item 3: Ferns, 1855-1872 / [sketchbook of drawings by Louisa Atkinson]
• Call number
  PXA 4498
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1855-1872
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  80700
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Albums - 1 sketchbook, with cloth covered-boards, 88 pages comprising 38 watercolour drawings and 2 pen and ink drawings - 39 x 27.4 x 1 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Sketchbook comprises drawings of ferns - mostly separate watercolour drawings of individual specimens
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1045979
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Embossed on front cover of sketch book "FERNS"
  Most of the drawings are annotated with botanical names of the specimens depicted
• Topic
  botanical illustrations
  ferns
  natural history illustrations
  sketchbooks
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The work of art - Australian women writers and artists - State Library of New South Wales (14 August, 1995 - 11 February, 1996). Applies to: No. 20
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1052721

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