• Title
  [Hawkins family drawing room, ca. 1830]
• Call number
  DG SV1B/45
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1830
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  896440
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pencil - image 14.2 x 26.2 cm, sheet 21.8 x 31 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  The group pictured in this drawing may be Thomas Fitzherbert Hawkins family, drawn by one of its younger members. Hawkins built "a fine brick house" in the 1820's on his selection, Blackdown, Macquarie River
  
  (Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography. v.1, 1788-1850; pp.524-525)
  
  For descriptive notes on Blackdown see 'The National Trust of Australia (N.S.W.) Central Western Branch...Bathurst Weekend 1976.'
  
  "New South Wales" written at head of broadsheet on table at centre of sketch
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
• General note
  
  Note on catalogue card states that the pictured group could also possibly be the Wood Family
  
  Plaster and timber frame, with gold leaf, is located at F176
  
  The drawing was removed from the frame and restored upon receipt in the Library; it was originally backed with sheets of white paper with "Creswick" watermark, white paper with names written on (filed with sketch), newsprint from an unidentified South Australian newspaper, ca. 17th June, 1858, and grey paper (see restoration report)
  
  Keyword subjects:
  Blackdown (Bathurst, N.S.W.)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1310073
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned, undated and untitled
  
  The following names are written in pencil on a former backing sheet (now removed and filed with the drawing): "I...[E]ddy Edward Hawkins esquire...[a]nd Jackson Hawkins...John Poole (?)...Robinson Brighton...[?]"; the writing may be a child's practice
  
  "Mrs. Wood(d?)s" was written in pencil on a backing sheet since discarded, and "R.S. (t?) Wood Mt. Oxley (?)" is written in pencil on back of frame in which drawing was received
• Date note
  
  No date. Dated to ca. 1830 by Terence Lane & Jessie Serle in "Australians at Home". Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990, p.63
• Name
  Hawkins family
  Hawkins, Thomas Fitzherbert
  Hawkins, Edward
  Hawkins, Jackson
  Wood family
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  interiors
  groups (people)
  manners & customs
  interior design
  living rooms
  families
  
• Place
  Bathurst (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE224651

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