[King family collection]

PXA 826

fonds

1827-ca. 1880

Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Photographs, Prints

402343

Drawings - 2 watercolours
Photographs - 2 carte-de-visite photoprints - 1 albumen paper photoprint
Prints - 1 col. print - 2 proof copies of lithographs

1. No 5: [Unidentified coastal scene with battery, beach and sailing craft] 1827. Watercolour 11.5 x 15.1 cm. Signed on reverse, in ink 'E. King [i.e. Elizabeth King] Sc[ulpsit?]; 'A.J. King' [i.e. Anna Josepha King]; and 'No 5'
2. No 6: [Unidentified coastal scene with warship at anchor] 14 July 1827. Watercolour, 11.2 x 15.3 cm. Signed in ink on reverse: 'E. King Sc[ulpsit?], date as given above'; 'A.J. King'; and 'No 6'
3. Page cut from album, on which are pasted: (a) Carte-de-visite photographic portrait of Captain Robert FitzRoy ('Wothlytype 213 Regent Street' [London]). Image can be dated to ca. 1864 when the uncommon 'wothleytype' method of printing was used. Beneath image is inscription in black ink in another hand, of the sitter's name, and beneath this is an original signature 'Robert FitzRoy' in sepia ink, cut from an A.L.S.; (b) Albumen paper photographic print of Philip Gidley King, ca. 1860s. This portrait has been cut from a larger one, and has King's signature beneath in faded dark blue ink; (c) Carte-de-visite photographic portrait of Charles Darwin, early 1860s. His name has been inscribed in black ink in a later hand beneath; (d) H.M.S. Beagle. Chromolithograph by Marcus Ward & Co., after a painting by E. Duncan, ca. 1880. Pasted on reverse of the page are handwritten notes about FitzRoy and Darwin, and a printed cutting of an extract of Erasmus Darwin's poem about 'Sydney Cove
4. Goomburra from the South East / C. Martens / Decr.27th 1851. Pencil drawing, 18.4 x 23.3 cm. Inscribed with title, signature and date by the artist. A very similar drawing by Martens is held in an album in the Pictures Collection, Mitchell Library (ref. ZPXA 296, f. 25). On the reverse of the drawing is a manuscript poem 'Farewell to the Year 1848 and Home'
5. Elizabeth Bay. Port Jackson. Wm McLeay Esqre. Proof lithograph, 26.7 x 36 cm. Title inscribed in pencil, overwritten in ink lower right beneath image; also in pencil lower left in a later hand 'Elizabeth Bay House - Sir William Macleay'. The lithograph was issued in Conrad Martens Sketches in the Environs of Sydney ... 1850, set 2, no. 1, plate 1with the title 'Elizabeth Bay, Port Jackson' (see copy at Q981.1/M, location: Mitchell Library);
6. Darling Pt. Clarke Isld [sic, ie Island] Double Bay. Proof lithograph, 26.4 x 32.1 cm. Title inscribed in ink lower right beneath image; repeated in pencil in a later hand along top edge. The lithograph was issued in Conrad Martens Sketches in the Environs of Sydney ... 1851, set 2, no.2, plate 4, with title 'Clarke's Island, Port Jackson' (see copy at Q98.1/M, location: Mitchell Library)

Nos 1 and 2 form part of a panorama in 6 parts. Nos 2 and 4 are located in Watercolours related to and by members of the King and Macarthur families, location DGA 71, Sir William Dixson Reading Room, Mitchell Library