Views of Merewether family home and portraits

PXB 755

fonds

1966 (copies of ca. 1841-1920 original photoprints & sketch)

Graphic Materials, Photographs

100064

Photographs - 7 photoprints - 16.5 x 22 cm.

1. Sketch of Merewether old home, 'Castlefield', Wiltshire, by Elizabeth Merewether, 1841, who was the sister of Edward Christopher Merewether, husband of David Scott Mitchell's sister, Augusta Maria.

2. The Ridge. Home of E.C. Merewether. Undated. Image shows back view of house and garden.

3. The Ridge. Home of E.C. Merewether. Undated. Image shows view of house with large tree.

4. The Ridge. Home of E.C. Merewether. Undated. Image shows landscape view of house and land.

5. The Ridge. Home of E.C. Merewether. Undated. Two images in 1. Top image is of house, bottom image is of woman holding a baby with a view of a town in the background.

6. Georgina Merewether in a car with a young child. Undated.

7. The Ridge. Home of E.C. Merewether. Undated. Image is inscribed as Mr Allen Wallace, Mrs Georgina Merewether and 2 young girls in front of The Ridge.
Advice received in 1980 corrects this caption to be:
Arthur Selwyn Wallace and the little girls are Helen Merewether, and her school fellow, possibly Mollie Dangar.

Copyright restrictions may apply: Contact donor - Newcastle City Council

Contents List available at Pic.Acc.1029 in Pic. Source File, Original Materials Room, Mitchell Library
Related Manuscript Material: ML DOC 978 (Merewether family)

Photoprints are titled