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971101
  • Title
    Subiaco on the Parramatta River, 1858 and photographs of the Bamfield, Bidwill and Carne families, ca. 1860-1899
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXA 1439
    PXB 1706
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1858-1899
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    971101
  • Physical Description
    1 drawing - pen and ink - 12 x 21.5 cm on mount 17 x 27.5 cm
    1 print - 29 x 18 cm
    1 album (51 photographs) - albumen, cartes de visite - 11 x 8 cm or smaller
    3 photographs - albumen - 13.5 x 17.5 cm or smaller
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Frederick Savage Cox, 1836-1878, and Charles Clarendon Cox, 1831-1878, grandsons of William Cox, 1764-1837, married sisters Mary Hannah (Mamie) and Charlotte Elizabeth (Chattie), daughters of Elizabeth Bidwill and Thomas Digby Miller. Charlotte Bamfield, nee Bidwill, was Elizabeth's sister. Mary Anne E. Lewis, nee Miller, was T. D. Miller's sister. Edward Bamfield ,Ada Jacob and Amy Perkins were children of Charlotte Bamfield
  • Scope and Content
    PXA 1439
    Ink and pen drawing of 'Subiaco. Parramatta River. N.S.W.'
    'M.H. Millers 1858' inscribed in lower left corner and 'Subiaco' inscribed in lower right corner. On reverse is a newspaper clipping of a 'Traveller Attacked By Wolves - Painted by R. Ansdell'. Inscribed lower left 'H.Orrinsmith.St.'

    Three albumen photographs of the Bamfield family, ca. 1860-1899. Cabinet card inscribed on verso 'Sgt. General A. Bamfield', 'Charlotte Bamfield and her granddaughter [Norie Shusters?]...Brockhurst late 19th century' and 'Alice [Shusters?] nee Bamfield, married to nephew of Lord Roberts' [ca. 1883]

    Print of the Walhalla Gold Mine, undated

    PXB 1706
    1 album of cartes-de-visite of the Bamfield, Bidwill and Carne families, ca. 1850-1900

    Includes handwritten notes by the donor detailing the contents of the photograph album

    Forms part of MLMSS 3113 - the Cox Family papers
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955 (Photographs)
    Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955 (Artworks)
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.3754 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
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