[Album of views, chiefly of Liverpool Plains], 1831 / T.L. Mitchell

PXC 164

fonds

1831

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours

404851

Microfilm : CY 2042, frames 1 - 18

Albums - 1 volume (containing pencil and watercolour drawings) - 22.5 x 28.8 cm.

1. Percida Acerina Species - Cernua Bedy... [fish]
2-3. Hardwick's Range &c. from Stn. Bullabalakit
4. [blank]
5. Woody Flat [and surrounding mountains] / Part of the range / coming n Tangulda / round the North towards East of South East from Tangulda -
6. [blank]
7a-c. [Three studies of crayfish]
7a. A species of Astacus - which as far as I am aware / comes very close to the common European crayfish - / by which if at be eventually different from any species / ... described I beg leave to call - A.
7b. From the Nammoy below Bulabalakit 30 Decr. 1831 / Size of Life. / Found in the boat when rained
7c. Natural size of the largest of the / same kind, caught afterwards in / Lobster Pond -
8-9. Top hills in the plains / West of Lobster Pond [two profiles]
10. General view of the Trachytic Range
11. Lindsay's Range from Camp 12 Jany Mt Riddle bearing N 129 [degree symbol] / This for wood cut - / say / N.nda..ak [?] Range N W / Sir T.L. Mitchell / explored 1831 / leaf taken from Old Spark[?] "F.B" / it
12. Trachytic Range 3d Janry. from 1 mile N of where the common way changed to North / Sir T.L.M. Expled n. 1831 / (leaves taken from Old Sp.. fieldbook) / A.
13a. Percide (perch) ... / Cod caught in the Peel at Wallamburra 14 Dec. 1831 [with size and identication notes]
13b. Plotosus / Caught in the Nammoy at Tangulda 17 Dec 1831

Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955

The sketchbook has some pages missing, being removed at an unknown date. Some pages are blank and some pages are loose.
Many of the drawings have notations and measurements noted in pencil.
Some notes are faint and in small print being difficult to discern.

Stamped inside the front cover, in reverse, "J. Whatman / 1828"

Nos. 11-12 are on a loose sheets of paper, a darker shade to the album pages, and are watermarked, "Ruse & Turners / 1825"

No.13 bears watermark, "J. Whatman / 1828"

Microfilm copy made Nov. 1990.

Some of the drawings are dated, "1831".
Titles taken from prominent inscriptions on album page.
Handwritten in pencil inside the back cover, "Polygonum juucium - Leafless Bramble"