Photographs and watercolours, ca. 1850-1860 / compiled by Stephen Cole

PXE 1474

fonds

ca. 1850-1860

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings

909701

1 folder (7 photographs - 3 sketches; 2 drawings) : black & white; pencil; watercolour ; various sizes.

A. Photographs

1. Views of Sydney and Neighbourhood. B.G. Boake Photo. S.T. Leigh & Co. Lith.
a. [Macquarie Street and Government House, Sydney]
b. [View of Farm Cove, Sydney]

2. "Tapio". "Tapio, my grandfather's station, East and West bank of the river at Wentworth, N.S. Wales. J.R.C Liddell. The owner of Tapio was Dr. Dugald Fletcher, my great grandfather, Isabella C. Weinberg".

3. "Ki Station", River Murray. "My mothers station, Ki, River Murray N.S.W. where I was born. J.R.C. Liddell. The owner of Ki was Mrs. Stephen Cole, wife of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for N.S.W., my grandparents, Isabella C. Weinberg".

4. "View from Commissioner's quarters, Euston." My father's quarters at Euston, N.S.W. where he was Commissioner of Crown Lands for N.S.Wales."

5. S. Cole, Commissioner of Crown Lands Station at Euston.

6. "Baldo". [Australian Aboriginal on Stephen Cole's property on Murray River].

B. Sketches

2 pencil sketches of horses by Tom Balcombe.
Pencil sketch by Stephen Cole the Elder, "Flying fish".

C. Watercolours

"An old memory of the Murray". Watercolour drawing of police/troopers on horseback. There is also poem writting at the bottom and verso about the Justice of the Peace. Unkown artist and poet.

"An old memory of the Murray". Watercolour drawing of Aboriginal Australians with sheep. Unknown artist and poet. Attached note: "Grandfather Cole always rode behind his troopers - by their wish as they said they might be tempted to take a pot shot at him. I do not know who made the sketch or wrote the verse. The sketch of the sheep refers to the shooting of the scab-sheep by S. Cole."

Out of copyright: Created before 1955 (photographs)
Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years (drawings)
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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