• Title
  J. E. Tenison-Woods : Album of drawings, ca. 1879, 1881, 1884, 1886, 1889
• Call number
  PXA 552
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1879, 1881, 1884, 1886, 1889
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  423858
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (101 drawings) - pencil, ink and watercolour - 25.4 x 31 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Pages 1-7 (15 drawings)
  1. [Sea Shells] Pt. 20 & Pt. 16
  2. [Sea Shells]
  3a. Tiger Cowry ... Low Island Reef Port Douglas Q.L. [i.e. Queensland] Oct 1879 / J.E. Tenison Woods
  3b. Pupura Bayleana [and] Fossarina funiculata
  3c. [Austriella sordida]
  4a. Chiton inornatus
  4b. Gibbula tesserula
  5. Momordica charantia varmuricata ..... / J.E.T.W. 11.9.84 [i.e. 1884]
  6. Arca (Scapharca) inflata .... Japan 2.2.[18]86
  7. [Blank]
  
  Pages 8-21 (66 drawings)
  8-21. [Corals and marine plants]
  
  Pages 22-39 (20 drawings)
  22. Luffa acutangula ... excellent table vegetable / J.E.T.W. 9.9.[18]84
  23. [Blank]
  24-25. [Mushrooms]
  26. [Shells from] North Borneo 21.11.[18]84 & 22.11.[18]84
  27. Baliuus... [shells]
  28. [Blank]
  29. Nina D'Ermanno Visayan Indian Cuyo, Philippines May 1886 [female profile and sketch of shell] Cyprae [?] Philippines March 1886
  30a. Commelyna cyanea Br. marshy places tropics Q.L.
  30b. Ajuga Australis widely spread in Australia and probably not different from European species
  31. Mountain Cicada of Perak makes noise like a loud clarionet at night only. Common, but rarely captured. Seldom seem below 2000 ft. above sea Mt. Ijau. / J.E.T.W del 12.9.[18]84
  32. Tabernamountana pubescens R. Brown .... overgrowing all enclosed places at Cairns, Trinity Bay / J.E. Tenison Woods
  33. Asclepias curasavica a common weed in Queensland, introduced from North America. Roots used as an emetic. Bundaberg 25.5.1881
  34. [Landscape]
  35. Port Darwin 25.6.[18]86
  36. Pulo Balhalla Neuhauce to Sandakau Harbour N. Bornero / J.E.T.W. [18]89
  37. Mouth of the Barrow River sketched from Pilot Boat 2 Sept 1881
  38. [Mushrooms]
  39. Phasianus versicolor Arima Japan 31.1.[18]86
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Some pages have several sketches and some are mounted.
  Pages 7, 23, and 28 are blank.
  "D.S. Mitchell" signature on front endpaper
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1045826
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most sketches are identified and a few are dated.
  Embossed on spine, "Original Drawings Tenison Woods"
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Tenison-Woods, J. E. (Julian Edmund), 1832-1889
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  birds
  corals
  landscapes (artwork)
  mushrooms
  natural history
  seashells
  
• Place
  Borneo
  Queensland
  

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