• Title
  Item 23: Party landed from HMS Rattlesnake, 1849 / pencil sketch by Thomas Henry Huxley
• Creator
  Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895
• Call number
  DG SV*/Explo/1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1849
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  457998
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 pencil drawing - 22.9 x 13.2 cm. on mount pasted to sheet 50.8 x 38.1 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  Signed with monogram ('TH' superimposed) and dated 1849 in lower right corner
  Titled in pencil, in Huxley's? hand, on mount below drawing. Also written on mount in ink is 'Professor Huxley Queensland 1849' followed by an indecipherable note, both in an unknown hand
  
  The sketch is very similar to one in the Huxley papers held by the Unwin Library, South Kensington; see photo at SPF/Kennedy, E.B.C. - Expedition. The Unwin sketch appears to be the original of the illustration reproduced in Huxley, T.H. - Diary of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake ... London, Chatto & Windus, 1935, pl.7, facing p.134 (ML ref. 980/12A1). The signature on the ML sketch is very similar to that on a sketch reproduced in the above 'Diary' (pl.2, facing p.48) titled 'Chamarelle Falls, Mauritius'. The sketch is filed with a newspaper clipping dated 1931 and headed 'Darwin and Huxley'; and a letter to newspaper headed 'Huxley's romance'.
  
  Dimensions converted to metric from Mitchell Library Pictures card catalogue
  From a scrapbook purchased from Mr Bruce Gidley Abbott (son of Elizabeth Matilda Abbott (b. King, 1872; m. Ross, 1893; m. Abbott, 1901) and great-grandson of Philip Gidley King (1817-1904)). The album was bequeathed to Mr Abbott by his aunt, Olive Maria Laura Gidley King. The contents of the scrapbook were catalogued individually.
  
  For locations of picture items see list at PXn 258. Manuscripts are at MLMSS 1973. Two printed volumes in this purchase are with Mitchell Library Printed Books: Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro. Viage al estrecho de Magallanes ... 1579-1580. Madrid, 1768 (P.P. King's copy; with marginal annotations by him) Location: Q910.45/4A1; and The Hannibal Macarthurs (O.L. King's copy) Location: A929.2/M116.4/1A1
  
  Copy Print : DG SV*/Explo/1 Available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:a1528208
• Topic
  colonial art
  sketches
  exploration
  horses
  
• Place
  Queensland
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Equinity - State Library of New South Wales (15 October - 10 December, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1499263

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