• Title
  [Selection of drawings, 1841-1850 / Sophia Ives Campbell]
• Creator
  Sophia Ives Campbell, 1812-1891
• Call number
  DGA 73
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1841-1850
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  118255
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  9 drawings - pencil - 23.2 x 28.5 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Duntroon N.S. Wales Decr 1841
  2. Fort Macquarie, Sydney Cove A.J. 1843
  3. [Closebourne], Morpeth, 23 August 1847
  4. Statue of Sir Rich[ar]d Bourke, Sydney 1850. This work is a copy of the lithograph by Conrad Martens in his Sketches in the Environs of Sydney ... set 1, no. 1, plate 1, January 1850
  5. Sydney Cove, 1850
  6. Fort Macquarie from the garden, [Wharf House], 1850
  7. North Shore from the garden, [Wharf House], 1850
  8. To the Wharf [Sydney Cove], 1850
  9. [Unidentified ship]
  10. [Scrap album (from which the drawings above were removed ca. 1996, as well as other items sold separately to various purchasers). Album retains the residue of 5 watercolours, 6 col. prints and 2 drawings (f. 9 and 10, showing the Molonglo River in flood, with St John's Church). Some pages are decorated with blind embossed or printed borders]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Related Material
  Copy photographs of an album of drawings belonging to Sophia I. Campbell, 1841-1850, and album of photographs mainly of views of Sydney, New South Wales, 188-? (9648717)
• General note
  
  In 1968 the complete album was lent to the Mitchell Library for inspection and copying of significant drawings. For a list of the contents at this time and references to Small Pictures File locations of photographic copies, see Mitchell Library PXn 150, location Sir William Dixson Reading Room. In 1996, most of the drawings were extracted from the album, and sold to several different purchasers. The Mitchell Library acquired the drawings listed in this record, plus the remains of the scrap album.
  One pencil drawing of Dawes Point from the North Shore by Conrad Martens from the original album was acquired in 1996 by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for their Australian Prints and Drawings collection, see Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection / Hendrik Kolenberg, Prue Davidson, Anne Ryan. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997. Location : Q741.9940749/1 Mitchell Library
  A watercolour of Blues Point by Conrad Martens also from the album was offered at Christie's Fine Australian Paintings Sale, Sydney, 17 August 1998, lot 1022
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titles and dates inscribed on drawings lower right or upper left. Album inscribed on front endpaper 'Sophia I. Campbell from her affectionate brother George Campbell A.D. 1847'.
• Conservation note
  
  3 grawings are laid down on pages cut from former album ; 4 retain guards along top edge from album binding - scrap album from which drawings were taken, brown morocco with blind and gilt embossing on front and back covers and spine
• Topic
  houses
  ships
  statues
  walls
  
• Place
  Closebourne (Morpeth, N.S.W.)
  Duntroon House (A.C.T.)
  Fort Macquarie (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Wharf House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Canberra Images - Canberra Museum & Art Gallery (2 February - 14 June, 1998). Applies to: DGA 73/1 and DGA 73/10
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8637788

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