• Title
  Item 3: [Rogers family scrapbook]
• Call number
  PXA 665/vol. 1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1840 - 1870 (scrapbook compiled ca. 1840-1870)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Prints, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  86459
• Physical Description
  1 scrapbook, with embossed covers of arabesque design and 'Album' printed in middle front cover in gold, of 147 pages (manuscript, engravings, pencil drawings and watercolours) - 29.5 x 24 x 3.8 album
  
• Scope and Content
  Album includes a large number of albumen photoprints of paintings, mainly religious, poems etc; in fair condition, and colour wood engravings (many by Le Blond & Co., London). Also includes a number of watercolour flower studies - the majority of Australian subjects.
  Items which were loose in volume are now at PXA 665 vol.2
  The following is a partial contents list of Australian content only:
  Sydney from Milson's Point -- watercolour; signed lower right "H.G Lloyd 1860 (Call No.: p.9)
  Bondi Bay NSW -- pencil on prepared board; signed lower left "S.T. Gill"; drawing is set in middle of a poem by Henry Kendall, in his hand, titled "Bondi" (Call No.: p.13)
  Hindoo Girl, after Westmacott -- pencil; signed at lower right "A.E.S. Ironside. 1849" (Call No.: p.17)
  Grasstrees -- pencil on coloured prepared board; initialled lower left "S.T.G." (Call No.: p.21)
  Dungog - Parsonage [gardener] -- watercolour; initialled "J.L.D." (Call No.: p.33)
  [Native flower] -- watercolour; at lower left "J. King Fremantle West Australia 1843 (Call No.: p.41)
  St Peter's Church [Tempe] -- watercolour; signed "Harry Lloyd" ie Henry Grant Lloyd (Call No.: p.47)
  Temple and Fountain at Lyagwhan Africa / After Sir Grenville Temple, Bart. -- pencil on blue paper; signed "A E Scott Ironside 1851" (Call No.: p.55)
  Sydney from Darling Point -- watercolour; signed "H. G. Lloyd 18 60" (Call No.: p.59)
  La Perouse Monument -- pencil; inscribed "E. Rogers" (Call No.: p.65)
  Hafleur S.S. Islands -- pencil on prepared card (Call No.: p.68)
  [Flower study] -- watercolour; initialled "R.M.R." (Call No.: p.71)
  [Lighthouse and boat] -- watercolour and pencil on prepared card; initialled "F.E.R." (Call No.: p.72)
  Astarte [poem] -- by Henry Kendall, in autograph hand (Call No.: p.73)
  [Flower study] -- watercolour; on reverse "R. M. King" (Call No.: p.75)
  [Flower study] -- watercolour; initialled "R.M.R." (Call No.: P.77)
  [Flower study] -- watercolour; signed "J. King 1840" (Call No.: p.80)
  [Flower study] -- watercolour on rice paper; inscribed "Jane King / Fremantle W. Australia 1844 (Call No.: p.105)
  [Flower study] -- watercolour on embossed card; signed "R. Rogers" (Call No.: p.106)
  Maryborough Queensland Creeper -- watercolour; initialled "J.L.D." (Call No.: p.109)
  [Flower study] -- watercolour; inscribed in later hand on reverse "Painted by Mrs George King 1842 Fremantle Western Australia" (Call No.: p.111)
  [Flower study] -- watercolour; inscribed "Jane King Fremantle W. Australia 1843" (Call No.: p.117)
  [comic optical illusion drawing] -- ink; inscribed "R. King" (Call No.: p.127)
  Nandenbergia / Grevillia Orcissii of Mus[?]in the plant Orcissiana -- watercolour; signed "J. King" (Call No.: p.137)
  Anuigoanthus[?] indeginus to W. Australia -- watercolour; inscribed "R. King" (Call No.: p.141)
  [Flower study] -- watercolour; inscribed "Painted by Miss Ironside"
• 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
  
  Album may have belonged to Francis Edwards Rogers (1841-1925) as the album is initialled "F.E.R." in the design for its 'frontispiece' on p.5
  Jane King was the wife of Rev. George King, who emigrated to Western Australia in 1841. Their daughter, Rebecca May King, who was born in 1841, married Francis Edward Rogers in 1868 cf. Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.5 (George King) and vol.11 (Francis Rogers): ref. Ref 1/920.094/7C Mitchell Library
  Digital order no:62709
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1818-1880
  Ironside, Adelaide, 1831-1867
  Kendall, Henry, 1839-1882
  King, Jane, d. 1900
  Rogers, Eliza
  Lloyd, Henry Grant, 1829-1904
  Rogers, Rebecca May, 1841-
  
• Topic
  botanical illustrations
  gardeners
  monuments & memorials
  native plants
  scrapbooks
  
• Place
  
  Dungog (N.S.W.)
  La Perouse Monument (Botany Bay, N.S.W.)
  Milsons Point (N.S.W.)
  St. Peter's Anglican Church (St. Peters, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
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