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Title
Volume 3: Voyage of H.M.S. Britomart from 1837 to 1843, volume 3 / drawn by Owen Stanley
Call number
SAFE/PXC 280
Level of description
series
Date

1837-1843
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Manuscript Cartographic Materials
Reference code
457867
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album (73 drawings and 1 map) - watercolour and pencil - 26.5 x 38 cm.
Scope and Content
Contents list of images in folder inserted in front of volume compiled by Library Officer.
i. The National Art Gallery of N.S.W. Ex Libris [bookplate]
1. Indian jugglers Singapore, watercolour (description of scene on facing page)
2a. Opium clipper Straits of Malacca, ink
2b. Arab dow, grey wash
3. Chinese junk Maulmain. pencil and watercolour.
4a. Pagodas Malmain. pencil sketch
4b. Nomanzike Pagoda. pencil sketch
Description and ink sketch on facing page.
5a. A Tomb. Maulmain, May 21st/42. ink
5b. A Burmese idol of an inferior Deity. pencil
6a & b. Pagodas Maulmain. pencil and wash
7.[Missing sketch - Pagoda, Maulmain]
8a. Damatha near Maulmain. watercolour, description of place on facing page
8b. Zyat Damatha. watercolour (title repeated in pencil at upper right)
9a. Pagoda's Maulmain. pencil and watercolour
9b. Damatha rocks. watercolour.
10. Interior of a temple dedicated to Guadema. pencil and watercolour (description of Buddhism on facing page)
11. Moulmain. pencil and watercolour ('Moulmain' in pencil upper right)
12. Maulmein. pencil and watercolour (title on reverse showing through 'Maulmain from Polygune Pagoda')
13. Kyoung or Monastery Maulmain. pencil and watercolour (title repeated in pencil in upper left, description on facing page)
14. Interior of a temple Maulamin. pencil (continuation of description on facing page)
15. Temple dedicated to Guadema Maulmain. pencil and watercolour (title in pencil at upper left 'Minaret near Calcutta belonging to morgue?' description on facing page)
16. Wreck of the Euphrasia Maulmain. pencil and watercolour (description and sketch of 'Large mounted rocket' on facing page)
17. Martaban and Maulman. pencil and watercolour (description on facing page)
18. Entrance of Selween [sic] River Maulmain. pencil (title in pencil at lower centre 'Sketch from OVI Entrance of Selweyn')
19a. Duke of York's nose Selween River. pencil and watercolour
19b. Trokla Pass Selween. pencil and watercolour
20. Selween River. watercolour
21. Duke of York's nose Maulmain. pencil and watercolour (unfinished)
22. The disputed rock at the head of the Selween, 75 miles above Maulmain, Painlha. pencil and watercolour (description on facing page)
23. Pagodas near Maulmain. pencil and wash (title repeated in pencil at upper left)
24. A Burmese lady. pencil and wash
25. Burmese chief Mounshwega (Golden Tiger) and attendants. watercolour (notes on chief on facing page)
26. Entrance to Penang E. May 23. pencil
27. Large tree Penang. watercolour (title in pencil at upper left 'Penang big tree')
28. Singapore new harbour. pencil and wash
29. The last of the Briomart Singapore April 30, 1843. pencil and watercolour (description on facing page)
30a. Singapore. pencil (on leaf facing 30)
30. Singapore. pencil (possible a continuation of the sketch 30a on facing page)
31. Black cobra Singapore. pencil (title in pencil lower centre 'April 16, 1943 Black Cobra'. Description on facing page)
32. Mahometan Tomb Calcutta. pencil heightened with white
33. Hindoo Temple Calcutta. pencil heightened with white
34. Banian tree Botanical Gardens Calcutta. pencil heightened with white
35. Mosque near Calcutta. pencil and wash
36. Mosque near Calcutta. pencil and watercolour (interior view)
37. Mosque near Calcutta. pencil and watercolour
38a. Native wooden anchor. pencil and wash (note on sketch 'boat filled with stones')
38b. Native boats on the Hoogly. pencil and wash
38c. Ruin near Hoogly. pencil and wash
39. Madras surf, August 1843. watercolour
40. Point de Galle Ceylon H.C.S.V. Queen. pencil and watercolour
41. Landing place at Pt. de Galle. watercolour
42a. Plan of Cumberland Bay ... Juan Fernandez ... by Lt. T. Graves assd. by O. Stanley 1830. ink (Map)
42. Market Place Pt. de Galle. watercolour (title and date in pencil at lower right 'Market Place Pt. de Galle, August 23, 1843')
43. Aden from the Eastward. wash
44. The landing place Aden. pencil and watercolour
45. A country house, Aden. watercolour
46. The pass at Aden leading to the Military station. pencil and watercolour (description on facing page)
47. The sea front of the military station at Aden from the artillery lines. pencil and watercolour
48. Scene at Suez preparing to cross the desert. pencil and watercolour
49. Boats, Suez. pencil and wash (title and date in pencil at upper right 'Suez Septr. 12 1843')
50. Street Suez. pencil touched with wash (title and date in pencil at upper right 'Suez, Septr. 12 1843' and in upper left in pencil 'Suez')
51a. How we crossed the desert with horses that had never before seen harness. pencil (directly onto album page)
51. Entrance to Great Pyramid. ink
52. Sphynx and Pyramids. pencil and wash
53. Nile entrance of the Atfe Canal. pencil and watercolour (title repeated in pencil, upper right, description on facing page has transferred onto painting)
54. Cleopatra's Needles, Alexandria. pencil (title repeated upper right in pencil)
55. Great Square Alexandria. pencil and watercolour (description on facing page of Mahomedan fast has lightly transferred to painting)
56. Harbour Alexandria. watercolour
57. Cape de Gatte. pencil and watercolour
58. Gibralter. pencil and watercolour
59-60. [Blank]
61. [Hills and water]. wash, untitled
62. Untitled. watercolour
63. Untitled. pencil and watercolour
64. Alexandria Street. pencil (title in pencil on back)
64a. On back of 64, sketch of tower. pencil (untitled, possibly Muzzein's Tower?)
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Titled on spine
Captions chiefly appear on page below the drawing or on the drawing.
The volume is labelled `3'. No. `1' is located at PXC 279. A memo dated 1900, states that volume 2 was being sent to Hobart. -- Correspondence inserted in front of volume 1.
Volume 1 (PXC 279) has an envelope inserted inside front cover containing correspondence relating to the acquisition of the three volumes of Owen Stanley sketches.
Digital order no:Album ID : 1071044
Topic
interiors
Burmese people
mosques
temples
Place
Aden (Yemen)
Alexandria (Egypt)
Calcutta (India)
Moulmein (Burma)
Singapore
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