• Title
  [Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia, ca 1831-35] / drawn by Sir T.L Mitchell]
• Creator
  Thomas Mitchell, Sir, 1792-1855
• Call number
  DL PXX 21
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca 1831-1835]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457919
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 13 pencil drawings, 3 watercolours - 27 x 28 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  f. 1 Cambo. (Pl.1, v. 1)
  f. 2. Grister Peelii. 14 Dec 1831. Note below title reads `Note from Sir Thomas Mitchell's Sketch book cod caught in the peel at Wallumburn' (Pl.6, v. 1)
  f. 3. Eeelfish caught in the Nammoy [sic] at Tangulda. 17 Dec. 1831. Title and date in unknown hand. Another note reads `1 1/2 in shorter than nature' (Pl.6, fig.2, v.1)
  f. 4. [The pic of Tangulda] (Pl.8, v.1)
  f. 5. [Nundawar [sic.] Range] (Appears to be early sketch similar to Pl.7, v.1)
  f. 6. Astacus or crayfish caught in the Nammoy [sic]. Dec. 1831. A note in the same hand reads `Caught in the Nammoy. Found in the boat after rain (Sir T.L.M notebook)'
  f. 7. `Fruit from bank of large lagoon. 14 Feby'. Note reads `Tall slender tree like cedar or) mountain ash (P.82, v. 1)
  f. 8. Cernua Bidyana - caught Dec 1831 (Pl.9, v. 1)
  f. 9. [Valley of the Grose. 1835]. A note below the sketch reads `13 or four natives figures on rock in foreground' (Appears to be early sketch similar to v.1, p.154)
  f. 10. [Figure study for first meeting with chief of the Bogan. 1835] (Appears to be a study for the reproduction Pl.12, v. 1)
  f. 11. [Studies for the first meeting with chief of the Bogan. 1835] (Appears to be a study for the reproduction Pl.12,v. 1)
  f. 12. [Study for the first meeting with chief of the Bogan. 1835] (Appears to be a study for the reproduction Pl.12, v.1)
  f. 13. [Study for the first meeting with chief of the Bogan. 1835] (Appears to be a study for the reproduction Pl.12, v. 1)
  f. 14. [Native of the Bogan. 1835] (Pl.13, v.1)
  f. 15. [Dead acacia. 1835]. The page is divided in half with the drawing on the left side. On the right there is a diary account which continues on the reverse side of the leaf
  f. 16. [Another of dead acacia]
  f. 17. [Talambe a young native of the Bogan tribe. 1835]. A note at upper left reads `slight cloud to relieve upper feathers white' (Pl.19, v. 1)
• General note
  
  Contents list available in the front of portfolio
  All the drawings are unsigned and only 6 are titled and 5 are dated. Titles and dates for some of the drawings have been taken from the information and plates reproduced in `Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia'
  The collection contains works that are from two of Mitchell's expeditions and which appear to have been reproduced in `Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia ... / by Major T.L. Mitchell (2nd ed.), London : T.& W. Boone, 1839' (ML 981/2B1)
  
  Fragment of manuscript of 'Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia' Corresponds to p. 289-90 in the printed text of Volume 1 (London : T. & W. Boone, 1838) with slight alterations. Deals with events from 2-5 august 1835. Pencilled manuscript alongside sketch f. 15
  
  Printed work is found at DL 83/248
  Digital order no:Album ID : 872496
• Name
  Cambo
  Talambe
  
• Subject
  Victoria--Discovery and exploration--19th century.
  New South Wales--Discovery and exploration--19th century.
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  expeditions
  fish
  fruits
  lobsters & crayfish
  portraits
  trees
  valleys
  
• Place
  Grose River Valley (N.S.W.)
  Liverpool Plains
  Nandewar Range (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3242880

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