George Milner Stephen and Mary Stephen (nee Hindmarsh) album of sketches and drawings

PXE 822

fonds

1832-1850s

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Prints

402065

1 scrapbook of 57 leaves - 30 x 35 cm

1 scrapbook of 57 leaves in black leather elaborately blind-embossed cover, also with gilt embossing at corners and edges, all edges gilt; elaborate gilt-embossed borders on front and back endpapers, which are covered in crimson watered taffeta.

The album consists of pictures, poems and miscellaneous ephemera. It appears to have been started by George Milner Stephen, and given to his wife Mary (nee Hindmarsh, daughter of the Governor of South Australia, 1836-38) at the time of their marriage in July 1840. George Stephen inscribed some of the drawings, either with his own initials 'GMS', or those of his wife 'MS', or with the name of other artists, eg 'GTWB' [ie G.T.W.B. Boyes]. The following is a partial contents list only:

1. [White cliffs]. signed lower right 'J.A. Jackson'
2. [Girl beside a stream], pencil with watercolour tinting + [windmill] and [landscape by moonlight], pencil. All attributed to George Milner Stephen
3a.[Portrait of John Montagu]. Attributed to George Milner Stephen. John Montagu (1797-1853) was Colonial Secretary in Van Diemen's Land, 1835-1842
5. [Portrait of man in turban], watercolour with gum arabic. Inscribed lower left in the hand of GMS 'Miss Jean'
6. [Rocky foreshore], pencil. Inscribed lower left 'Mrs Chapman'
11. [House with trees], pencil. Inscribed lower left 'Mrs Chapman'
12. [Sydney looking across Farm Cove from Mrs Macquarie's Chair], monotone wash with pencil. Initialled lower left 'GMS'. Shows from left Palmer's Mill, the Government Stables and to the right, the Governor's Bathing House and Fort Macquarie
13. [Dutch fishing boats], watercolour. Inscribed in ink lower left and right 'Painted in 1810 [by] G.W.B. Boyes'
15. [Country landscape scene], watercolour beneath image 'Lieut Hill RN'
17. [Lake scene], sepia wash. Inscribed in pencil beneath image 'Mr Thompson'
18. [Yachts and other vessels, Adelaide?], watercolour. Inscribed in pencil lower right beneath image 'M Stephen'
18a. [Tropical scene, possibly India], ink drawing. Signed and dated by the artist lower left 'W.R. Thomas 1854' [i.e. William Rodolph Thomas]
19. [Lake or harbour scene, possibly India], ink drawing. Initialled and dated lower edge by the artist 'G.F.W. 18 May 1836'
20. [Sailing ships off white cliffs], watercolour. Signed by the artist lower left 'C.W. Jackson';
21. Flora McIvor, watercolour. Initialled in ink lower left beneath image by the artist 'G.M.S.' [i.e. George Milner Stephen]
22. Castle ruins, watercolour. Inscribed in pencil beneath image 'Capt [Samuel Augustus Perry] Deputy Surveyor General Sydney' and title lower centre
24. [Thatched cowshed], ink drawing. Inscribed with initials 'M.S.' lower left beneath image
26. [Portrait of a young woman], watercolour. Initialled lower left beneath image 'G.M.S.'
35. [Ship in a storm at sea], watercolour. Initialled lower right 'C.W. J. [i.e. Jackson] 1822'
38. [Dutch fishing boat by windmill on canal], watercolour. Inscribed beneath image 'Mrs Colonel Logan 63 Reg[imen]t
40. [Bridge and village with mountain behind, probably Switzerland], watercolour. Initialled in pencil beneath image lower left 'G.M.S.'
41. [Two young men in medieval costume], watercolour. Inscribed in pencil lower left beneath image 'J.A. Jackson'
42. [Milkmaid], pencil and watercolour. Inscribed in pencil lower left beneath image 'Brown Sydney'
43. [Study of young woman], pencil. Initialled lower left beneath image 'G.M.S.'
46. [Study of young man (self-portrait?)], pencil. Initialled lower left beneath image 'G.M.S.'
47. [Morning glory], watercolour. Inscribed in pencil lower left beneath image 'Mrs. F. Frith 21st Regt'
48. [River scene, India?], watercolour. Inscribed lower left beneath image 'G.W.B. Boyes'
49. [Warships at anchor], watercolour. Initialled lower left beneath image 'M.S.'
50. [Lakeside scene, India], watercolour. Inscribed lower left beneath image 'Dr Russell 63 Regt'
51. [Horse], pencil. Inscribed lower left 'Chalon'
52. [Cornelius de Jonge, Print Seller], dry point etching. Signed and dtaed in the plate 'Rembrandt 1651'
54. [The ribbon seller], ink and watercolour. [English]

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

See also other albums and sketchbooks with artworks by George and Mary Stephen and other members of the Stephen and Wilkinson families. Located in the Mitchell Library Pictures Collection (refs. PXA 6921, PXA 6922, PXA 6923)

Inscribed in ink on front flyleaf 'Geo M Stephen 1st February 1832.-' / 'Mary [Hindmarsh] from George. 9 July '40 [the year of their marriage].

Also signed in ink on same page upper right 'Florence M.H. Wilkinson'; and the same hand lower right in pencil 'For Zelina [Zelma?]'