Item 1: Rogers family scrapbook

PXA 664/vol. 1

item

ca. 1830-1860

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours

85646

Albums - 1 scrapbook of 192 pages -- album comprises manuscript, engravings, pencil drawings and watercolours - 24 x 20 x 3 cm.

Scrapbook consists of pictures, poems and miscellaneous ephemera - sketches comprise mainly natural history drawings and copies of European paintings and scenes. It was probably compiled in Sydney by a Rogers family member from the 1830s onwards. Drawings initialled "F.E.R." are possibly by Francis Edward Rogers (1841-1925); those initialled "E.R." are possibly by Eliza Rogers
The following is a partial contents list of Australian content only:
South Head Lighthouse. Port Jackson. New South Wales : published by J.G. Austin, 1834 -- lithograph (Call No.: p.3)
Monument erected to the memory of La Perouse : published by J. G. Austin, 1834 -- lithograph (Call No.: p.5)
[St Mary's Cathedral] -- pre-1865, initialled "F.H.S.", pencil (Call No.: p.15)
[Government House, Sydney] -- pencil (Call No.: p.72)
On the Macquarie Creek, Hobarton -- pencil (Call No.: p.93)
Aldridge Lodge Hobarton -- initialled "E.R.", pencil (Call No.: p.94)
[Map of Australia] -- ink & wash (Call No.: p.114)

Scrapbook mostly compiled ca. 1830-1860 : p.3 & 5 were published in 1834; p.61 is dated 1840 - dates of family members suggest the end date.