• Title
  Anglo-Russian War with the Baltic Fleet, Sketches / O.W. Brierly, 1854
• Creator
  Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.) Brierly, 1817-1894
• Call number
  PXA 522
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1854
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  404787
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 2964 (PXA 522)
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Albums - 1 sketchbook (ca. 104 pencil - watercolour drawings) - 32.3 x 27 x 1.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  The sketchbook relates to Brierly's visit to Kiel Bay and the anchorage of the Baltic Fleet at Niborg. Many sketches are of warships (such as the Neptune and Edinburgh) and open battle and gunfire at sea.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Most of the sketches are rough and unfinished affording a sense of immediacy and the unpredictable nature of warfare.
  The sketchbook is reversible, as it has been used from the front and back.
  Some sketches are drawn over a double page.
  D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside cover.
  "D.S. Mitchell" signature on reverse of original cover.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824227
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  A non-contemporaneous title plate on front endpaper.
• Subject
  Crimean War, 1853-1856.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  sketchbooks
  war correspondents
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (18 October, 2004 - 6 February, 2005). Applies to: ff. 66-67
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3204042

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