• Title
  [Botanical drawings and views by members and friends of the Scott family, ca. 1828-1881]
• Call number
  SAFE/PX*D 5
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1828, 1841, 1848, 1855, 1860, 1862-1863, 1865, 1869, 1877-1879, 1881
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Drawings, Prints
• Reference code
  430818
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 volumes (containing 42 watercolours, 6 pencil drawings and 1 etching) - 34.3 x 41.5 cm. or smaller (drawings), 47.2 x 33.6 or smaller (albums)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Alexander Walker Scott (known as Walker) was the son of Helenus and Augustus Maria Scott, and father of Harriet and Helena. He was a close friend of the artist Edwin Landseer in England. Harriet Scott married Dr Cosby William Morgan in 1882. -- Reference: Dictionary of Australian artists / Joan Kerr, editor. [Sydney] : Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, 1984
  Notes on forms of signature used by Helena Forde (nee Scott) and Harriet Morgan (nee Scott) are filed at PXn 759.
• Scope and Content
  VOLUME 1 (Nos. 1-22)
  1a. Eugenia Mystifolia. Brush Cherry. Rhodes - April/79 [i.e. 1879] / H. Forde
  1b. [unfinished pencil sketch]
  2. Loranthus Preissii? (Muller) L. (Dendrophthoe) Gaudichaudi (W) / Helena Scott
  3. View at Dangar Island, River Hawkesbury / Helena Forde, 1869
  4. Pittosporam revolut... [?]
  5. Eupomatia laurina Ash Island / H. Forde. [in ink] Newcastle 18th Decbr. 1862 H.Scott [in pencil]
  6. Dendrobium amulum [variety of orchid] / H.S.
  7. Dendrobium [in ink] var amulum [in pencil. Variety of orchid] / H.S.
  8a. Gopholobium Grandiflorum / Helena Scott 1848 Tomago
  8b. [Floral wreath] 9th February
  9. Martin Vas' Rocks ... [with nautical co-ordinates] April 1828 / A.W. Scott
  10. Fugosia hakeafolia Swan River / 4D [i.e. Helena Forde]
  11. Plate 44. Mostly from Nature & on Stone by Helena Forde. [diagrams of shells] Allan & Wigley Printers, Sydney
  12. Eugenia Smithii Lilly Pilly Acmena elliptica? "Waratah" 1st May 1862 / Helena Scott [crossed through with a line] Helena Forde
  13. Bignonia Jasminoides Moreton Bay Bignonia / Harriet Scott, Ash Island 1862
  14. Lake Illawarra (from Flagstaff Hill - "Berkeley") / Harriet Scott. HS 1865
  15. Actinotis helianthi specimen brought from Mt Victoria by Lady Hay 1877 / H. Forde
  16. Blandfordia Nobilis Lake Macquarie / Harriet Scott delt. Ash Island 1860
  17. [Flower] From Lake Macquarie near Newcastle / Harriet Scott delt. Ash Island 1865
  18. Clitorea Fernatea. First brought to Europe from Fernate one of the Molucca Islands (London) [in blue ink] Double blue Pea from Noumea - New Caledonia grown at Perudale / Harriet Scott [in black ink] HS [in pencil] [with notes on the plant written at Ferndale, 1881 on the reverse]
  19. Swainsona Greyana. "Poison Pea" of Darling River Sydney Decbr 1869. From a specimen grown in Mrs Shannon's garden, from seed brought by me from the Darling / H. Forde 4D
  20a-b. Murray Cliffs below Blanchtown S.A. / E. Forde Augst 1865
  21a. ...ded gum - River Darling 1865 / Helena Forde
  21b-c. [Sketches of tree-lined path, fence with palms, and fort or castle on the reverse of 21a]
  22. Eleocarpus oboratus? Grew [? or bow] Manly Beach 29th August 1877 / HS H.Scott
  VOLUME 2 (Nos. 23-42)
  23. Eugenia mystifolia [crossed through] Smithii "Lily Pilly". Brush Cherry [crossed through] / H. Scott 1877
  24. Waterview Bay - looking towards Sydney. Original by Captn Perry RN 1842 / Harriet Scott from a drawing by Captn Perry [i.e. Samuel Augustus Perry]
  25. Protea Mellifera from Cape of Good Hope Sydney 30th March 1841 / A.W. Scott 1841
  26. Transformations of Perga Eucalypti unfinished sketch by the late A.W. Scott 1842. View of Dawes Point, by the late Conrad Martens
  27a-b. [Two birds] E. Landseer del. T. Landseer f.
  28. [Coastal town]
  29. A night at St George's Basin. Pigeon House Woody Point Precipice Range Garden Island
  30. Government House in 1805. The original painting by G.W. Evans. G.H.P 99
  31. "Para" or "Fairy Creek" Wollongong August 1863 / Helena Scott
  32a-b. Entrance to Jervis Bay 1855 [in pencil on reverse of image. "Captn Perry" on backing sheet]
  33a. View from "Fairlight" Manly Beach 1869 / Harriet Scott
  34. Mount Lindesay 60 Miles South from Moreton Bay, 5700 feet high above the level of the sea (from a sketch taken by A. Cunningham Esqr) / John Abbott May 6th
  35. Mt Kembla. "Ben Rixon's" Farm, Dapton Road Illawarra August 1863 / Helena Scott
  36. Newcastle Harbour looking up the Hunter / HS 1865
  37. "The Valley of Palms" near "Cleveland" Dapto - July 16th 1862 / Helena Scott
  38-39. [Flowers. For studies of flowers on two sheets]
  40. [House bedise river] / M. [?] Terry 1877
  41. "Buckenbore" [i.e. Buckenbowra] mouth of the Clyde River off Bateman's Bay Wharf / E. Forde 1860 [titled on reverse and on backing sheet]
  42. La Perouse Monument Decbr 1878 / HS
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The drawings in these volumes have been renumbered.
  The drawings were removed from the original volume (that is filed separately) and rehoused in 2 volumes by the SLNSW Preservation staff in 1993.
  Corbett Binder, City Chambers, 243 Pitt Street, Sydney bound the original volume.
  Some drawings have inscriptions in more than one style of handwriting.
  Nos. 1 and 13 have unfinished sketches on the reverse of image.
  No.3 is affixed to a backing card.
  No.5 has a blind stamp at upper right, "Extra / Superfine / Satin"
  Nos. 5 and 21 have drawings on the reverse and have been numbered a and b accordingly.
  Nos. 20, 27, 32, 33, 37, and 41 have an accompanying backing sheet that has been numbered b.
  No. 23 has pencil notes on the reverse.
  Some of the drawings were reproduced in "Historical drawings of native flowers, Harriet and Helena Scott, from the collections of the Mitchell Library, Sydney" introduced and selected by Marian Ord. Roseville, N.S.W.: Craftman House, 1988. Ash Island Series, Vol.2 (ML ref. Q709.94/48)
  It is probable that this volume was donated by D.S. Mitchell owing to his relationship with the Scott family and the presence of the Corbett Bookbinders label.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 997317
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most drawings are signed and are titled.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Forde, Edward, 1827-1866
  Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1803-1873
  Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878
  Perry, Samuel Augustus, 1792-1854
  Scott, A. W. (Alexander Walker), 1800-1883
  Scott, Harriet, 1830-1907
  Forde, Helena, 1832-1910
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  bays
  botanical illustrations
  entomology
  farms
  flowers
  natural history illustrations
  seascapes (artwork)
  seashells
  
• Place
  Ash Island (N.S.W.)
  Blanchetown, South Australia
  Dangar Island (N.S.W.)
  Dapto (N.S.W.)
  Darling River (N.S.W.)
  Dawes Point (N.S.W.)
  Fairy Creek (N.S.W.)
  Government House (Bridge St., Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Illawarra, Lake (N.S.W.)
  Jervis Bay (N.S.W.)
  La Perouse Monument (Botany Bay, N.S.W.)
  Manly Beach (N.S.W.)
  Mort Bay (Balmain, N.S.W.)
  Newcastle Harbour (N.S.W.)
  St Georges Basin (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Wollongong (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Illawarra : The Garden of New South Wales - Wollongong City Gallery. Applies to: No. 37a

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