Sketches taken by John Aitken on a trip round the world, 1854-1855

PXD 254

fonds

1854-1855

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Prints

836282

Copy print : PXD 254
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

1 album (130 drawings and 16 prints) - pencil, ink, lithograph - 37 x 56 (album)

1. Diary account. 1854 (PXD 254/p.f.1)
2. Diary account. 1855 (PXD 254/p.f.2)
3. Pyramids of Egypt from the Citadel. Cairo 1854 (PXD 254/p.f.3/Item a)
4. Suez on the Red Sea. 1854. (PXD 254/p.f.3/Item b)
5. On the Nile. 1854 (PXD 254/p.f.3/Item c)
6. Aden Harbour and Cooling Station 1854 (PXD 254/p.f.3/Item d)
7. Near Aden Harbour. Red Sea. Straits of Babelmandel. (PXD 254/p.f.4/Item a)
8. Bridge in Ceylon 1854. (PXD 254/p.f.4/Item b)
9. Island of Abogeyle [?] in Red Sea off Coast of Abyssinia. (PXD 254/p.f.4/Item c)
10. Madras Fort from the Sea 1854. (PXD 254/p.f.4/Item d)
11. Dak Bungalow. Topchuni. (PXD 254/p.f.5/Item a)
12. Brewers and [?] (PXD 254/p.f.5 Verso/Item a)
13. Entrance to Camsingmoon. (PXD 254/p.f.5/Item b)
14. San Chou where the English fleet lay during war in 1840. (PXD 254/p.f.5 Verso/Item b)
15. Road through the Jungle India. (PXD 254/p.f.5/Item c)
16. Camsingmoon. (PXD 254/p.f.5/Item d)
17. Entrance to Chou Lean or Canton Harbour. (PXD 254/p.f.6/Item a)
18. English factory Chul Houre Canton. (PXD 254/p.f.6/Item b)
19. Barricade in River, Near Wampo. (PXD 254/p.f.6/Item c)
20. Portraits of Chinese. (PXD 254/p.f.6/Item d)
21. Untitled Chinese scenes. (PXD 254/p.f.7/Item a)
22. Untitled Chinese scenes. (PXD 254/p.f.7/Item b)
23. Untitled Chinese scenes. (PXD 254/p.f.7 Verso/Item b)
24. Untitled Chinese scenes. (PXD 254/p.f.7/Item c)
25. European house in India. (PXD 254/p.f.8/Item a)
26. Douro in typhoon. (PXD 254/p.f.8/Item b)
27. Wreck of Douro. (PXD 254/p.f.8/Item c)
28. Pulo Penang. (PXD 254/p.f.9/Item a)
29. Singapore near -[?]- Harbour (PXD 254/p.f.9/Item b)
30. Singapore Harbour [?]. (PXD 254/p.f.9 Verso/Item b)
31. Entrance to Singapore Harbour looking through Bay of Bengal. (PXD 254/p.f.9/Item c)
32. [Light house Singapore] (PXD 254/p.f.9 Verso/Item c)
33. King George's Sound. (PXD 254/p.f.9/Item d)
34. Kielor [sic] plains John Aitken's House. Heads Melbourne Geelong. (PXD 254/p.f.10/Item a)
35. Road making Black Forest. (PXD 254/p.f.10/Item b)
36. Port Phillip Heads Victoria. (PXD 254/p.f.10/Item c)
37. Forest Creek from Victoria Hotel. (PXD 254/p.f.10/Item d)
38. Rocks. (PXD 254/p.f.11/Item a)
39. Mount Victoria. (PXD 254/p.f.11/Item b)
40. Hassan's Wall. (PXD 254/p.f.11/Item c)
41. Camp Castlemain [sic] (PXD 254/p.f.11/Item d)
42. Castlemain [sic] Diggings from Albert Hotel. (PXD 254/p.f.12/Item a)
43. Bush scene. (PXD 254/p.f.12/Item b)
44. Castlemaine. (PXD 254/p.f.12/Item c)
45. Bush scene (PXD 254/p.f.12/Item d)
46. Presbeterian [sic] Church Bendigo. (PXD 254/p.f.12 Verso/Item d)
47. Going into Bendigo from View Point. (PXD 254/p.f.13/Item a)
48. Bendigo Hills (PXD 254/p.f.13/Item b)
49. Bendigo (PXD 254/p.f.13/Item c)
50. Botany Bay La Perous's Monument. (PXD 254/p.f.13/Item d)
51. Scotch Church Bendigo. Reverend James Nich. (PXD 254/p.f.14/Item a)
52. Bendigo Camp Bank of Victoria from Post Office. (PXD 254/p.f.14/Item b)
53. Part of Bendigo Digging. White Hill from Iron P. (PXD 254/p.f.14/Item c)
54. -[?]- Victoria. (PXD 254/p.f.14/Item d)
55. Heads. Entrance to Port Jackson - Sydney. (PXD 254/p.f.15/Item a)
56. Pulpit. Wellington Caves. Tea Pot Pinch. (PXD 254/p.f.15/Item b)
57. Bathurst. (PXD 254/p.f.15/Item c)
58. Looking out Wellington Caves. (PXD 254/p.f.15/Item d)
59. Entrance to Caves Wellington. (PXD 254/p.f.16/Item a)
60. Heads. Watson's Bay. (PXD 254/p.f.16/Item b)
61. Montefiores Wellington. New South Wales. (PXD 254/p.f.16/Item c)
62. Port Jackson Heads - New South Wales. (PXD 254/p.f.16/Item d)
63. Bolton's Station Cardington - 3 Rivers- (PXD 254/p.f.17/Item a)
64. Campbell's Creek on the -[?]- (PXD 254/p.f.17/Item b)
65. Smith's Sheep Station Canobolas Mountains in Distance - (PXD 254/p.f.17/Item c)
66. Narima. (PXD 254/p.f.17/Item d)
67. Goshourre [?] (PXD 254/p.f.18/Item a)
68. Macquarie Nanami [sic] (PXD 254/p.f.18/Item b)
69. Title illegible. Bush town. (PXD 254/p.f.18/Item c)
70. Penrith New South Wales. Blue Mountains in Distance. (PXD 254/p.f.18/Item d)
71. Road to Botany Bay. (PXD 254/p.f.19/Item a)
72. Title illegible Probably Indonesian village. (PXD 254/p.f.19/Item b)
73. General's Stewart's. (PXD 254/p.f.19/Item c)
74. On the Derwent near New Norfolk. Pulpit. (PXD 254/p.f.19/Item d)
75. Crampien on the Grand Inunk Road Near the Dandea Pass. (PXD 254/p.f.20/Item a)
76. Untitled, mountain scene (PXD 254/p.f.20 Verso/Item a)
77. Untitled. (PXD 254/p.f.20/Item b)
78. Title Illegible. (PXD 254/p.f.20 Verso/Item b)
79. Hartley. (PXD 254/p.f.20/Item c)
80. Title Illegible. (PXD 254/p.f.20/Item d)
81. West end - Porto Ricer [sic] (PXD 254/p.f.20 Verso/Item d)
82. Jusjagnil [?] (PXD 254/p.f.21/Item a)
83. Ginnes Station 4 miles from Hensue Ket. (PXD 254/p.f.21 Verso/Item a)
84. Panama (PXD 254/p.f.21/Item b)
85. Untitled. (PXD 254/p.f.21 Verso/Item b)
86. [?] - possibly Panama (PXD 254/p.f.21/Item c)
87. Untitled. (PXD 254/p.f.21 Verso/Item c)
88. Possibly Panama (PXD 254/p.f.21/Item d)
89. last rock off Island of St. Thomas... (PXD 254/p.f.21 Verso/Item d)
90. Leeward [Islands?]... (PXD 254/p.f.22/Item a)
91. Governor's House, Sydney. (PXD 254/p.f.22 Verso/Item a)
92. Caliao ... (PXD 254/p.f.22/Item b)
93. Untitled. (PXD 254/p.f.22 Verso/Item b)
94. Saint Paolo. (PXD 254/p.f.22/Item c)
95. Paita. (PXD 254/p.f.22/Item d)
96. St. Thomas. (PXD 254/p.f.23/Item a)
97. Duasma (PXD 254/p.f.23 Verso/Item a)
98. St. Pedro. (PXD 254/p.f.23/Item b)
99. Cape Cabria... (PXD 254/p.f.23 Verso/Item b)
100. Sugar Plantation. Near Matanzar. Cuba. (PXD 254/p.f.23/Item c)
101. Title Illegible. (PXD 254/p.f.23 Verso/Item c)
102. Title Illegible - island. (PXD 254/p.f.23/Item d)
103. Untitled. (PXD 254/p.f.23 Verso/Item d)
104. Carthagena. (PXD 254/p.f.24/Item a)
105. Carthegena ... (PXD 254/p.f.24 Verso/Item a)
106. On the Mississipi [sic] (PXD 254/p.f.24/Item b)
107. Staten near Placquenie. (PXD 254/p.f.24 Verso/Item b)
108. Faboga. (PXD 254/p.f.24/Item c)
109. Wreck of Yankee Blade. (PXD 254/p.f.24 Verso/Item c)
110. Helena. (PXD 254/p.f.24/Item d)
111. Alton junction of Mutt. (PXD 254/p.f.24 Verso/Item d)
112. Junction of Bell & Macquarie Rivers. (PXD 254/p.f.25/Item a)
113. Waterfall Blue Mountains. (PXD 254/p.f.25/Item b)
114. Baton Rouge. (PXD 254/p.f.25/Item c)
115. Title Illegible. (PXD 254/p.f.25 Verso/Item c)
116. Bush on fire from Blue Mountain Inn. (PXD 254/p.f.25/Item d)
117. Road over Blue Mountains. (PXD 254/p.f.26/Item a)
118. Pitsburgh ... (PXD 254/p.f.26/Item b)
119. Untitled drawings of towns. (PXD 254/p.f.26 Verso/Item b)
120. Cambria Ironworks ... Pennsylvania. (PXD 254/p.f.26/Item c)
121. Untitled drawings of towns. (PXD 254/p.f.26 Verso/Item c)
122. Railway Bridge Niagara Falls. (PXD 254/p.f.26/Item d)
123. Diggers licensing Forest Creek. 1852 (PXD 254/p.f.27/Item a)
124. Road in Black Forest. 1852. (PXD 254/p.f.27/Item b)
125. Road to Bendigo from Forest Creek 1852. (PXD 254/p.f.28/Item a)
126. The claim disputed '54. (PXD 254/p.f.28/Item b)
127. Iron Bark Gully Bendigo Diggings '54 (PXD 254/p.f.29/Item a)
128. Butcher's Shamble. Forest Creek. '54 (PXD 254/p.f.29/Item b)
129. Coffee Tent & Sly Grog Shop Diggers Breakfast 1852. (PXD 254/p.f.30/Item a)
130. Diggers on way to Bendigo '54 (PXD 254/p.f.30/Item b)
131. Diggers hut canvas and bark 1852. (PXD 254/p.f.31/Item a)
132. Eagle Hawk Gully from left of road to Bendigo 1852. (PXD 254/p.f.31/Item b)
133. Zealous Gold Diggers, Bendigo 1854. (PXD 254/p.f.32/Item a)
134. A Bendigo Mill 1852. (PXD 254/p.f.32/Item b)
135. Bendigo Creek from Main Road to Eagle Hawk. 1852. (PXD 254/p.f.33/Item a)
136. Successful Diggers on way from Bendigo '54 (PXD 254/p.f.33/Item b)
137. Diggings at Little Bendigo Forest Creek 1852 (PXD 254/p.f.34/Item a)
138. Mount Alexander Gold Escort on route to Melbourne 1852. (PXD 254/p.f.34/Item b)
139. Wool teamsters making camp. (PXD 254/p.f.35)
140. Corroboree. (PXD 254/p.f.36)

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Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

Title amended on advice of reader:
63. Bolton's Station Cardinrha [sic] - 3 Rivers- (PXD 254/p.f.17/Item a)
to
63. Bolton's Station Cardington - 3 Rivers- (PXD 254/p.f.17/Item a)

26 June 2023
AD

The lithographs are from Gill, S.T. - the diggers and diggings of Victoria as they were in 1852. Kelbourne, J. Blundell, [185-] (DL ref. 85/539)

Keyword subjects:
Ceylon
Aden
Carribean Islands
U.S.A.
Bolton's Station
Cardington Station
Campbell's Creek (N.S.W.)
The Heads (Port Jackson, N.S.W.)
Black Foreest (Vic.)
Lacy, George

None of Aitken's sketches is signed. Sixteen lithographs are signed 'S.T.G.' and two ink drawings are signed 'G. Lacy'.

Twenty two are dated and one hundred and seventeen titled.

Imperial Cargo - Parramatta Heritage Centre. Applies to: no.8a