[Scrapbook presented to Elizabeth King, 1847]

PXA 889

fonds

1847 - 1855 (dated by dates of inscriptions and autographs)

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints, Textual Records

404603

1 scrapbook with embossed cover (131 pages) - gilt-edged. - ; 39.3 x 23.5 x 3 cm
Textual Records - typescript. Also includes typescript and photocopies of research notes

This scrapbook was presented by Charles McArthur King to his sister Elizabeth King in October 1847. Phillip Parker King of Gippsland, Victoria, gave it to Miss Dorothy Butler-Walsh who in turn gave it to Mary E. King (a grand-daughter of Charles McArthur King) in c.1967. The scrapbook appears to have then passed to the present vendor, who was also a King family descendant

The scrapbook contains a number of drawings (both European and Australian), autographs, poems, silhouette portraits, and pasted-in prints. Many of the contributors are King family members.
p.9) Tahlee : pencil sketch
p.12) Entrance to Pt Stevens : wash drawing
p.26a) Tahlee 1840 : pen & watercolour site plan
p.26b) Tahlee Port Stephens 1840 : pen and watercolour plan of house
p.31) Fossil fish (Ganoidal)in Ironstone nodules. Parramatta found June 20 1851 RLK : pencil drawing
p.65) [Charles McArthur King] Ap. 17 1851 : ink drawing said to be King by later family members
p.69) The Observatory. Tahlee : wash drawing
p.72b) Newlands Parramatta Sept 1850 RLK : wash drawing
p.74) Australian Entomostraca 1851 : pen drawings
p.95) Tregeare 1847 RLK : pencil drawing
p.97) Yarroville June 18 1850 : pencil drawing
p.103) Tahlee : pencil drawing
p.115) [3 drawings of icebergs at sea] : pencil drawings
Separate in album is pencil drawing "Spot Son of Thistle a favourite Dog of Admiral Kings"

Copies of family research on the scrapbook and its provenance, some compiled by Mary King, which identify signatures and scenes in it, are filed with the book.
Photocopies of notes identifying people mentioned in the scrapbook have been removed from it, and filed separately. They have been given the same page number as the item to which they refer i.e. a note referring to something on page 65 will be marked page 65a.

Inscribed on page 1 "Elizabeth King from her affectionate Brother Charles McA King October 31st/47"

Binding of scrapbook broken.