Adelaide Ironside sketchbook, 1850s

PXA 1759

fonds

1850s

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Textual Records

440215

Microfilm : CY 2620, frames 140-160 (PXA 1759 - filmed Nov. 1992 while at the location A 1759)

1 sketchbook (crayon and pencil drawings) - 34.1 x 30.2 x 1.2 cm.

For biographical information on Adelaide E. S. Ironside see; Ironside family - Papers, 1854-1868.

Portrait sketches of males and females including David Charles Frederick Scott (p. 11) and Frederick Scott (p.6).

This volume was rebound in August 1932.
Transferred from the manuscripts' location A 1759.
No. 6 has a pencil inscription, "Sketch by Frederick Scott" in an unknown hand.
No. 11a has a non-contemporaneous inscription in black ink that identifies the subject and artist of the portrait, "Sketch of Capt. D.C.F. Scott / (Uncle to Mr D.S. Mitchell) / By Miss Ironside".
No. 12 is sketched on the reverse of a dinner invitation to Sir George and Lady Gipps, addressed to Major Barney.

Transferred from Mitchell Manuscripts A 1759, August 1997

No. 6 is signed, ".... S. Ironside"
No. 7 is initialled and dated, "A.E.S.I. 1853"
No. 11 is titled in pencil, "Mrs Scotty / her pictur"