• Title
  Item 01: Sketchbook of John Andrew Bonar who went to Australia in 1857
• Call number
  PXA 538/vol. 1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1857-1858
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  833338
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (26 drawings) - watercolour - 14.2 x 24 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [Coastal scene with sailing ship at centre right]
  2. [Sailing ship with rowing boat astern]
  3. [Sailing ship at sea]
  4. Sudden Shift of wind after a squall.
  5. A January day in the Tropics
  6. Bar of the Clarence River New South Wales
  7. Jervis Bay New South Wales Pigeon House in the distance
  8. Coast near Manly Beach
  9. South Head from Manly Beach Port Jackson
  10. Tivoli
  11. Sydney from Tivoli
  12. Bottle & Glass Rocks Port Jackson
  13. Government House Sydney from the Domain
  14. Sketch in the Domain, Sydney
  14 verso. General view of Sydney from the North Shore
  15. General view of Sydney from the North Shore
  16. On the Hawkesbury River at Windsor
  17. Lavender Bay Port Jackson
  18. The South Head Port Jackson looking up Middle Harbour
  19. On the Hawkesbury River at Windsor
  20. The North Head and Light Ship Port Jackson
  20 verso. [Sketch to which caption on reverse of p.20 refers, "General view of Parramatta", missing when sketchbook was received in 1986 ]
  21. Parramatta, New South Wales
  
  22. From Macquarie Point looking towards the Domain.
  23. Botany Bay from near Waverley
  24. Sketch on the Banks of the Brisbane from the path through the Rose Wood Scrub
  24. (verso) [Sketch to which caption on reverse of p.24 refers, " Sydney from the Point Port Jackson ", missing when sketchbook was received in 1986]
  25. [Man and graveyard]
  26. [Unfinished watercolour]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titled by the donor on a label pasted inside the front cover.
  Contents List PXA 538. Titles in brackets devised by cataloguer.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 997016
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bonar, John Andrew
  
• Topic
  views
  sketches
  
• Place
  Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.)
  Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
  Domain, The (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Tivoli (residence : Rose Bay, N.S.W.)
  Rose Bay (N.S.W.)
  Bottle and Glass Rocks (Port Jackson, N.S.W.)
  Waverley (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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