• Title
  Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings / F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Anna Maria Nixon
• Call number
  PXD 90-PXD 95
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1843-1851
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  449189
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : PXD 91/no.6
  
• Physical Description
  6 albums (103 drawings) - pencil and watercolour - 48.5 x 40.5 cm (mount)
  
• Scope and Content
  CONTENTS:
  
  VOLUME 1
  
  Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1843-1844 (PXD 90).
  
  
  VOLUME 2
  
  Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1840s (PXD 91).
  
  
  VOLUME 3
  
  Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1840s (PXD 92).
  
  
  VOLUME 4
  
  Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1846-1847 (PXD 93).
  
  
  VOLUME 5
  
  Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1840s (PXD 94).
  
  
  VOLUME 6
  
  Tasmania and Norfolk Island. A collection of watercolour drawings by F. R. Nixon (Bishop of Tasmania) and Miss Maconochie, probably 1851 (PXD 95).
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titled and chiefly dated on drawing. Some captions are partially obscured by the mounts.
• General note
  
  Title of album on spine contains former attribution to Miss Maconochie.
  Digital order no:a1694001
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  A number of sketches were possibly drawn by Anna Maria Nixon. Mrs Nixon was known to copy her husband's drawings -- Dictionary of Australian Artists / ed. Joan Kerr, entries under A.M. (p.488), Anna Maria Nixon (p.577) and Francis Russell Nixon (p.580).
  
  Formerly attributed to Miss Maconochie by Sir William Dixson. Anna Maria was the daughter of Charles Woodcock, and not Alexander Maconochie (Brown, T. & Kerr, J. 1995. Anna Maria Nixon. Design & Art Australia Online).
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Nixon, Francis-Russell, 1803-1879
  
• Topic
  bays
  cliffs
  
  islands
  landscapes (views)
  Norfolk Island pines
  rowing boats
  towns
  tree ferns
  
• Place
  Ben Lomond (N.S.W.)
  Eaglehawk Neck (Tas.)
  Hobart (Tas.)
  Longford (Tas.)
  New Norfolk (Tas.)
  Norfolk Island
  Port Arthur (Tas.)
  Flinders Island (Tas.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  On the Run. Daring Convict Escapes - State Library of New South Wales (6 November, 2006 - 9 February, 2007). Applies to: PXD 91/6
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3239573

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