• Title
  Item 06: Natural history and botanical drawings, ca. 1849-1872 / [attributed to Louisa Atkinson]
• Call number
  PX*D 640
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  ca. 1849-1872
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs
• Reference code
  446170
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  60 drawings - pencil, ink, wash, and watercolour drawings
  3 photographs
  
• Scope and Content
  The collection includes views of Oldbury, Sutton Forest, Mount Keira coal mines, studies of Australian animals and birds, and botanical drawings.
  
  Views
  1. Oldbury Mill. "Emily' is written in pencil on lower right.
  2. View of Oldbury from Dairy Hill [Mt Gingenbullen]
  3. Casuarina stricta Concord. Augst llth.
  4. [Rocky waterhole]
  5. A duplicate scene is "Coral lus. Syd. News 14/4/1855 Louisa Atkinson. c.1855. [on reverse in donor's hand]
  6. Entrance to old shaft (on reverse in donor's hand) .... undoubtedly Mt Keira Mine, 1855.
  7. Coal Mines Mount Keira
  8. [Fern gully and stream - Sepia photograph of original pen & ink sketch]
  9. [River - Sepia photograph of original pen & ink sketch]
  10. [Shooting party with flying foxes - sepia photograph of original pen & ink sketch]
  11. [Sydney Harbour, possibly]
  12. Murphy [Portrait of a girl] 1854
  13. [Palm tree]
  14. Revd D Macdonald D.D.
  15. [Fenced enclosure and cattle trough]
  16. [Sydney Heads]
  
  Animals
  17. Flying Squirrel. Plate 6.
  18. [Hopping mouse] [on reverse] Plate 14
  19. Porcupine [on reverse]. Plate 14.
  20. Ecihen [i.e. Echidna, on reverse] Plate 18.
  21. Native Cat [on reverse] Plate 19
  22. Ringtailed Opossum [on reverse] Plate 23
  23. Bandicoot [on reverse] Plate 24
  24. [Koala]
  25. Petrogale penicillata [Rock Wallabies]
  26. Bauda Macropus ruficollis. Plate 30
  27. [Otter, possibly?]
  
  Insects, birds
  28. [Dragon fly]
  29. [Pigeon with manuscript note on reverse] 1849
  30. [Nesting birds, with pencil sketch of passenger coach on reverse]
  31. [Fighting birds, with pencil notes]
  32. [Bird]
  33. Elanus Notatus - Black shouldered Kite. Frith - High Country Plate VII. [on reverse in donor's hand]
  34. [Hawk, possibly?]
  35. [Crow]
  36. [Swallows with nest]
  37. [Nesting birds, with sketch of platypus on reverse]
  38. [Duck, with pencil notes]
  39. [Birds nests]
  40. [Parrots]
  41. Platycercus Barvardi [parrot]
  42. [Parrots]
  43. [Parrot]
  44. [Pencil note in donor's hand on fragment of paper watermarked '1860']
  45. [Honeyeater]
  46. Pteloris Victoria Gould
  47. Miss Atkinson's drawing [and in donor's hand] Charlotte Elizabeth? [on reverse]
  48. Apiosmictus scapulatus. Plate 6
  49. Trichoglossus Swainsonii Plate 8
  50. Euphema pulchella. Plate 9
  51. Ardea pacifica Lath. Plate 14...
  52. Plate 19. Anas superciliosa Gmel
  53. Phalacrocora melasleucas Plate 23
  
  Botanical drawings
  54. Chiloglottis oiphylla
  55. [Bouquet of flowers identified by Rachel Roxburgh as tetratheca, solanum, small white orchid, yellow pea flower. On the reverse is an inscription in the donor's hand -] "Atkinson's drawing / Probably Charlotte Elizabeth"
  56. [Flowers with botanical footnotes]
  57. [Two orchid plants]
  58. Lehmannia nerifolia? Pittosporacae
  59. [Pea flower]
  60. Travellers Grass Arum family
  61. [Pea flower]
  62. [Cactus flower]
  63. [Passion fruit flowers]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The works are not signed.
  Some titles have been given by the donor.
  For information on Louisa Atkinson, complied by the donor, see PXn 836.
  See also Louisa Atkinson papers at A 4496 - A 4497 (CY 1907), PXA 4498, and PXA 4499 - PXA 4501 (CY 1937 - CY 1938).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1038190
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most of the drawings are titled by the artist.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to the artist from information supplied by the donor and comparison with other works of Louisa Atkinson held in the Mitchell Library.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Atkinson, Charlotte Elizabeth, 1828-1911
  Atkinson, Louisa, 1834-1872
  
• Subject
  Birds--Pictorial works.
  Natural history illustration.
  Parrots--Pictorial works.
  
• Topic
  bandicoots
  botanical illustrations
  coalmines
  flowers
  fruit-bats
  harbours
  homesteads
  insects
  koalas
  mining
  orchids
  possums
  rivers
  trees
  
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