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Title
Collection of watercolours of scenes in and around Sydney, and views of the Nepean River, Bathurst Plains and Sandhurst, 1857-1861 / George Kilgour Ingelow
Creator
George Kilgour Ingelow, 1821-1865
Call number
DG*D 32
Level of description
fonds
Date

1857-1861
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Watercolours
Reference code
844266
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
53 watercolours - various sizes
Scope and Content
VOLUME 1
f.1. View from Long reef, near Collaroy looking north?
f.2. [Sydney Harbour?]sketched as the rain cloud passed over
f.3. [Sydney Harbour?]10 minute later
f.4. Entrance to Sydney Harbour, showing North Head?
f.5. Fort Denison, Sydney Harbour?
f.6. Sydney Harbour
f.7. South Head, Port Jackson?
f.8. From Waverly [sic]looking towards Sydney
f.9. On the cliffs near the lighthouse
f.10. From North Shore looking into Neutral Bay
f.11. Looking towards the Tasman Sea; Macquarie lighthouse in the background
f.12. Coogee Bay - looking South
f.13. Bondi Bay
f.14. Manly (with Wrench)
f.15. Sydney Harbour from Neutral Bay
f.16. Looking towards Sydney from Waverly [sic]
f.17. Sandhurst
f.18. Bathurst Plains from near Kirk Connell
f.19. Sydney from Waverley?
f.20. River scene with town? in background
f.21. Landscape, wooden bridge and road in the foreground
f.22. View of a beach, possibly Bondi?
f.23. Manly Beach Little Manly Cove
f.24. Sketch in Falkner's Bay
f.25. Manly Beach
f.26. Coogee Bay
f.27. Landscape, possibly South Head, Port Jackson

VOLUME 2
f.28. Near Wilson's Promontory on board the ' Calcutta '
f.29. The Nepean from Gibralter Rock
f.30. Landscape, possibly on Emu Plains?
f.31. Seascape
f.32. Seascape with figure in foreground
f.33. The expedition with Edward Hill
f.34. Bondi Bay
f.35. Rose Bay Sydney Harbour
f.36. Landscape ... with Stephens
f.37. Little Coogee Bay
f.38. Landscape
f.39. Canyons, possibly in the Blue Mountains?
f.40. On the cliffs between Bondi Bay and the lighthouse
f.41. [Bon?]di Bay
f.42. Landscape, possibly Sydney Harbour?
f.43. From Fern Hill
f.44. Seascape, possibly from South Head?
f.45. Seascape, view between two cliffs
f.46. The Nepean from Gibralter Rock
f.47. Seascape, view of Beach and rocks
f.48. Seascape; view of beach with row boat in foreground
f.49. Near the North Head
f.50. Near the South Head Columnar rock
f.51. A study of rocks and sand
f.52. From Gibralter rock
f.53. The North Head [Additional drawing, purchased December 2000]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
General note

Copy print : DG*D 32
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
A letter from the artist to his sister Jean, poet and novelist, acquired with the watercolours (ff.1-52) is filed at ML DOC 1649
Signatures / Inscriptions

None of the sketches are signed.
Most are titled but twenty two are untitled.
f. 53 titled below image, 'burnt Banksia' at right of image, 'burnt isopogon' at left of image. On backing board 'Painted 1857 by Ingelow, a banker who lived at Watsons Bay. 51 [i.e. 52] other watercolours by Ingelow in Mitchell Library. John Ferguson 1969'.
Date note

Six drawings are dated.
Subject
Art, Colonial--Australia.
Topic
suburbs
city & town views
landscapes (views)
seascapes (views)
bridges
rivers
mountain scenes
beaches
rocks (landscape)
sand
Place
Sydney (N.S.W.)
Nepean River (N.S.W.)
Bendigo (Vic.)
Manly Beach (N.S.W.)
Bondi (N.S.W.)

Rose Bay (N.S.W.)
Blue Mountains (N.S.W.)
Coogee Beach (N.S.W.)
North Head (Port Jackson, N.S.W.)
Fort Denison (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Fern Hill (property)
Neutral Bay (N.S.W.)
Emu Plains (N.S.W.)
Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
Clovelly Bay (N.S.W.)
Little Manly Cove Pool (N.S.W.)
Macquarie Lighthouse (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Wilsons Promontory (Vic.)
Collaroy Beach (N.S.W.)
Long Reef (Collaroy, N.S.W.)
Waverley (N.S.W.)
South Head (N.S.W.)
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