Olive O'Sullivan - album of miniature watercolour sketches, between 1886-1897?, contains views of Sydney, Katoomba, and Cook's River, including sketches of Tokanu, Strathfield, the Parsonage, Richmond and Bomera, Potts Point

PXB 1569

fonds

undated [ca. 1886-1897?]

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

448378

Albums - 1 album (89 watercolour sketches) - 10.5 x 16.3 cm. or smaller, in album 25.2 x 20.3 cm.

1. [Captain Cook statue]
2. View from Dawes Point ; The Three Sisters, Katoomba ; Lady Macquarie's Chair ; Botanic Gardens ; View from the Gardens ; Botanic Gardens
3. Sydney Gardens ; Lady Macquarie Walk ; Lady Macquarie Walk
4. View from the Gardens ; Lady Macquarie Walk ; Gardens ; Mountain Road Katoomba
5. Dawes Point ; Fern Gully Katoomba ; Observatory
6. [Fort Denison] ; North Head ; View near the Domain
7. Cottage Katoomba ; Rushcutters Bay ; St Marks, Darling Point
8. View from the Gardens ; Gully Katoomba ; Botanic Gardens
9. Manly ; Manly ; Sha...? Caves Katoomba ; Caves Katoomba
10. Near the Domain ; Government House ; H.M.S. Orlando
11. Road through the Domain ; Jesuit College, Lane Cove River
12. Nellys Grotto ; The Broken Column
13. Watsons Bay ; Government House ; Near Domain
14. Double Bay ; Double Bay ; [untitled]
15. Sand Hills ; Botanic Gardens ; North Head ; Entrance Gates Botanic Gardens
16. View from Potts Point ; Strathfield ; Church Strathfield
17. Jetty, Elizabeth Bay ; Strathfield Church ; Elizabeth Bay
18. Bathing House, Potts Point ; Strathfield ; Tokanu, Strathfield
19. The Oval ; Elizabeth Bay ; Farm Cove
20. The Parsonage Richmond ; Near Blacktown ; Near the Domain ; Double Bay
21. Domain ; Katoomba Falls ; Sydney cows
22. Lane Cove Bay ; Fort Denison ; Balmain
23. Iron Cove Bridge ; Snails Bay Balmain ; Iron Cove
24. Bathing Rock Coogee ; [Bay ] ; Back entrance to Government House
25. Canterbury ; Cooks River
26. Elizabeth Bay ; New tramway North Shore
27. Cooks River ; Cooks River ; R.C. Church North Shore
28. North Shore ; North Shore ; North Shore
29. Bomera Potts Point
30. [three untitled views]

""H.M.S. Orlando flagship Australian Station 1888-97. Cable tramway 1886, ext. 1893, elec. 1990"" -- Notes from Pictures Card Catalogue, Mitchell Libary.
Album presented by the great-great-nephew of Miss Olive O'Sullivan, who was unable to provide any information about the family. -- Note from the Pictures Card Catalogue, Mitchell Library

Most sketches captioned below image