• Title
  Album of views of Tasmania and Sydney, 1843-1852 / Francis Russell Nixon, Bishop
• Creator
  Francis-Russell Nixon, 1803-1879
• Call number
  DGA 37
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1843-1852
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  850389
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (40 drawings) - watercolour, pencil and crayon - various sizes
  
• Scope and Content
  DGA 37
  
  f.1 Adventure Bay Bruni Island. June 1845 - Watercolour
  f.2 Botany Bay January 26 1846 - Pencil, crayon and watercolour
  f.3 South Head. Sydney. January 1844 - Pencil, crayon and watercolour [4 at top of page]
  f.4 North Head. Sydney. January 1844 - Pencil, crayon and watercolour [5 at top of page]
  f.5 Double - Bay Sydney. February 1844 - Watercolour [7 at top of page]
  f.6 Storm Bay July 19 1843 - Watercolour [8 at top of page]
  f.7 Mouth of the Derwent July 19 1843 - Watercolour [9 at top of page]
  f.8 Arthur's Head. February 9 1846 - Watercolour [10 at top of page]
  f.9 Mount Wellington from Sandy Bay. May 1846 - Wash [12 at top of page]
  f.10 Hill Cottage The Mines February 1843 - Pencil and watercolour [14 at top of page]
  f.11 The Mines January 28 1846 - Pencil and watercolour [15 at top of page]
  f.12 Wedge Island from Mount Communication February 5 1846 - Pencil [16 at top of page]
  f.13 Eagle-Hawk Neck from Mount Communication February 5 1846 - Pencil [17 at top of page]
  f.14 Betsey Island from Mount Communication February 5 1846 - Pencil [18 at top of page]
  f.15 Wedge Bay January 23 1846 - Pencil and watercolour [19 at top of page]
  f.16 Wedge Bay January 26 1846 - Pencil and watercolour [20 at top of page]
  f.17 Garden Island January 27 1846 - Watercolour [21 at top of page]
  f.18 Long Point January 30 1846 - Pencil, crayon and watercolour [22 at top of page]
  f.19 Pirates' Bay February 17 1846 - Watercolour and pencil [23 at top of page]
  f.20 Blow Hole February 9 1846 - Watercolour [25 at top of page]
  f.21 Bishopsbourne V.D.L. May 8 - Pencil [27 at top of page]
  f.22 Panshanger May - Pencil & watercolour [28 at top of page]
  f.23 Ben Lomond V.D.L. November 3 1845 - Watercolour [30 at top of page]
  f.24 South Cape May 1 1852 - Watercolour [1 at top of page]
  f.25 Cape Pillar November 4 1851 - Watercolour [2 at top of page]
  f.26 Cape Pillar December 24 1851 - Watercolour [4 at top of page]
  f.27 Near Amos [?] November 1845 [?] - Watercolour [31 at top of page]
  f.28 At Swanport November 10 1845 - Watercolour [33 at top of page]
  f.29 Wine-glass Bay November 8 1845 - Watercolour and crayon [34 at top of page]
  f.30 Wine-glass Bay November 8 1845 - Watercolour and crayon [35 at top of page]
  f.31 Rocky Hills November 11 1845 - Wash [36 at top of page]
  f.32 Western Range November 20 1845 - Pencil and crayon [37 at top of page]
  f.33 Western Range November 19 1845 - Pencil and watercolour [38 at top of page]
  f.34 Western Range November [?] 1845 [?] - Pencil and crayon heightened with white [39 at top of page]
  f.35 Western Range November 20 - Pencil and watercolour [40 at top of page]
  f.36 Western Range November 2 [?] 1845 - Pencil and crayon heightened with white [41 at top of page]
  f.37 Western Range November 20 1845 - Pencil and crayon heightened with white [42 at top of page]
  f.38 Windermere on the Tamar. April 1844 - Watercolour [44 at top of page]
  f.39 Dry's Bluff From Panshanger. November 28 1845 - Watercolour [46 at top of page]
  f.40 Near Pontville April 6 1846 - Watercolour [47 at top of page]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  None of the sketches is signed. All are dated and titled except three which bear titles and month only. The volume carries the bookplate of Bishop Nixon.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  views
  
• Place
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Tasmania
  Tasman Peninsula (Tas.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8637618

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