Series 3: The Bruce Gidley Abbott collection of King family drawings, ca. 1833-1870

PXA 725

series

ca. 1833-1870

Graphic Materials, Drawings

152038

4 drawings - pencil - 25.6 x 31.6 cm (or smaller) - 1 watercolour on card - 10.5 x 27.5 cm, on sheet 15.4 x 29.2 cm

1. [Fish]. Watercolour probably by Philip Gidley King when on HMS Beagle, ca. 1833. See also similar works, ZPX*D 379, f. 14
2. Clovelly, Watson's Bay October 1838 (where P. & K. Leslie went after ... marriage 1840. J.C. Wickham R.N. Pencil and ink drawing. Title and signature inscribed in ink beneath image. Also inscribed in ink and pencil on reverse in later hands. See also similar work, ZPX*D 379, f. 21c
3. [House]. G.B.G. [George Bartholomew Gidley] King, Goonoo Goonoo, New South Wales. Pencil drawing. Signed lower right. See also ZDGSV1B/25 for another work by G.B.G. King
4. [House]. B. [Bessie, i.e. Elizabeth Maria] King [later Goldfinch], Augst. 18th 1870. Pencil drawing. Signed in ink lower left, and dated lower right. Also inscribed in ink and pencil on reverse by the artist, and in later hands
5. [Half-timbered thatched cottages]. Pencil drawing. Signed and dated in ink, overwritten on pencil lower left 'Fecit Miss King March 30th/70'; and in pencil lower right 'E.M. [Elizabeth Maria (Bessie)] King March 31st 1870. Also inscribed in pencil on reverse by the artist, and in a later hand

Associated manuscript collection at ML MSS 4309, Add-on 1711