• Title
  Helena Forde - `Sketches of Murray and Darling Rivers Taken in Camp, 1865-66 - H. Forde'
• Creator
  Helena Forde, 1832-1910
• Call number
  PXA 551
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1865-1866, 1876
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Drawings
• Reference code
  430614
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (containing 10 watercolour, wash, ink drawings) - album 22 x 28.5 cm., images 21.5 x 26.8 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Our First Camp, at Blanchetown August 1865
  The Camp at Blanch Town [i.e. Blanchetown] Murray River; seen from the door of our own tent - 8th Augst/65 [i.e. 1865] S [i.e. south] Australia / H. Forde
  2. Sandstone Cliffs "Moorundie" or Blanchetown S.A.
  The Murray Cliffs, from below Blanch Town, 7th Augt 1865. / H. Forde
  3. Junction of Murray and Darling Rivers, near Wentworth / H. Forde 1865
  4. Drawing Trent Camp 3
  Near 'Para' Mr Scotts Station - Portion of Camp 3 Darling River 18th Ocr 1865 / H. Forde
  5. "Flooded Gum", one of many near Wentworth
  Eucalyptus - near Wentworth Darling River / H. Forde 29 Augst./65
  6. Darling River, near "Para" J. Scott's Station. Camp 4 up River / Helena Forde, 7th Novbr 1865
  7. Darling River, near "Para" J. Scott's Station. Camp 4 looking down River / Helena Forde, 9th Novbr 1865
  8. Darling River, below "Mallara" J. [or G] A. Carstairs Station Camp 7 / Helena Forde, 4th Decbr. 1865
  9. Red Sandstone Cliffs above "Cutthro" [i.e. Cuthroe or Cutheroe] J. [James] Piles Station Camp 17 / Helena Forde, March 4th 1866
  10. Pammamaroo Creek Memindie [page 4 of numbered sketches]
  Numbered Sketches
  No.1 Tree marked by Mr A. Howitt (during his search for Burke) to show the site of Burke's first camp near bank of Pammamaroo Creek.
  No.2 Camels Shoe, from a heap of some hundreds thrown away by Burke to lighten the loads - Camp 1
  No.3 Camels camped near Pammamaroo Creek, May 1866. One old one which had been with Burke upon both expeditions - lost near Coopers Creek & afterwards found on the Clarence River.
  No.4 Nardoo (Marsilea hirsuta) used by Burke & party as food. / H. Forde
  General
  Extract from Mr Duncan's introduction notice of his translation of De Quin's Memorial to the ? of Spain concerning his discovery of the fourth part of the world, "Australia the unknown" June 1876 [on reverse of sketch No.10]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Original volume was bound into covers by Corbett Binder, City Chambers, 243 Pitt Street, Sydney at an unknown date.
  
  This item has been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824232
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title taken from title page.
  Most drawings are signed, ""Helena Forde"" or ""H. Forde""
  Drawings are titled and dated below image on album page.
  Some drawings have been inscribed on the lower right of image.
  ""D.S. Mitchell"" signature on title page
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  camps
  eucalypts
  rivers
  
• Place
  Blanchetown, South Australia
  Darling River (N.S.W.)
  Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (April 2005 - June 2006)

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