Views in Sydney and portraits, 1856-1860 / Matthew Fortescue Moresby, photographer

PXA 9

fonds

1856-1860

Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Photographs

853456

photographs - various sizes
1 watercolour - sepia - 4 1/2 x 9 1/8 in., on sheet 6 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.

All photographs were cut from an album and all but 16 inserted into a new album by donor, with her identifications. The 16 loose photographs were made into a booklet in the Mitchell Library.

Watercolour sketch is titled 'Sidney Cottage Sept 27th 1852'.

Contents list filed with collection.

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

Other Moresby prints, including some of these, are to be found in the Macarthur Papers (PXA 4358/1) ; see A.P.R. October 1956, pp. 588-597 for an illustrated article on Moresby by K. Burke.

Keyword subject:

Barney family
Bell, George R.
Campbell, Fanny
Campbell, Robert, Mrs.
Jeffrey, Arthur
Kerr (naval cadet)
Loring, William, Sir
Ward, Edward Wolstenholme, Sir

2 photographs are signed 'M.F. Moresby (one in reverse); one of these is dated 1857. Another is signed 'M.F.M.'. 2 photographs are signed 'E.W.W.' (E.W. Ward).

Watercolour is unsigned, titled and dated in pencil in lower right.

Most of the views are said to have been taken by M.F. Moresby.

It is not known if the watercolour sketch is of the cottage that was actually named 'Sidney Cottage' or if it was just the house the Moresbys lived in while in Sydney, i.e. their Sydney Cottage.

Photographs on p. 42 in the Macarthur album are the same as on p. 17, and p. 18 in the Moresby collection; and have the names 'Cnl. Ward', and 'Capt. Ward' written beneath them. It is probable this was Sir Edward Wolstenholme Ward (Captain; Colonel) who was Deputy Master of the Royal Mint in Sydney.

Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries - State Library of New South Wales (October 2023 - October 2024)