• Title
  Item 01: Jane Eliza Currie sketchbooks, 1818-1863
• Call number
  A 2887/Item 1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1818-1863
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs
• Reference code
  1347146
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : From microfilm
  
• Physical Description
  0.05 metres of textual material (2 volumes)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Jane Eliza Currie nee Wood, born in England, was a miniature and watercolour painter. Currie arrived at the Swan River Colony on the Parmelia on 1 June 1829, and first lived on Garden Island before moving to Matilda Bay on 1 June 1830, where her husband Captain Currie had selected part of his 12,200 acre grant. While living in Western Australia Jane Currie painted miniature portraits, natural history subjects and views. She returned to England with her husband and their two children on 12 August 1832.
  
  Reference:
  Design and Art Australia Online https://www.daao.org.au/ (accessed 29 June, 2015)
• Scope and Content
  VOLUME 1
  Five small sepia paintings of Port Macquarie, River Hastings, Careening Bay, Cambridge Gulf, and Port Essington; pencil sketches of rural cottages, trees, ships and vessels; various buildings and landscapes on the Isle of Wight; face and profile of young woman; various doodles.
  
  VOLUME 2
  Pencil sketch 'View of Cockburn Sound from Garden Island - W. Australia, 1829', showing ships Challenger and Sulphur (page 113)
  Pencil sketch 'Our first hut in Western Australia when landed on Garden Island, June 1829' (page 113 reverse)
  Watercolour drawing of HMS Ajax
  Various poems including 'The chimes of Northumberland', 'Love - it's immortality', 'The marriage vow', 'A mother'
  Pencil sketches of 'Captain Currie's first home in Australia', Cockburn Sound, 1829', 'Captain Currie's eldest children', various coastal cliffs, windmills, horse-drawn buggy, and ships at sea
  Pencil drawings of Claremont House, Surrey, England
  Pencil and watercolour drawings of insects and flowers, fruit bowl, English castles and scenery
  Various cuttings of religious imagery, and Rembrandt drawings
  Copies of photographs by A. H. Stone of Perth buildings and surrounds ca 1865; Burmese family with congenital hypertrichosis lanuginosa; various public buildings in Maulmein; Pagoda, European Barracks, and oil factory Rangoon, Rangoon oil factory, Shwedagon Pagoda at Rangoon; construction of Alguada Reef Lighthouse, Burma (now Myanmar); Lord Lucan of Crimea
  Paper cut birds
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 2498, frames 4-39
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Volume 1 inscribed inside cover 'Jane Wood, 11th July 1818', page 20 'M. R. Macrae 12.2.44'
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Stone, Alfred Hawes, 1801-1873
  Currie, Jane Eliza, b. 1794
  
• Subject
  Western Australia--Pictorial works.
  Western Australia--Discovery and exploration--English.
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  poetry
  sketches
  drawings
  houses
  
• Place
  South Downs (England)
  Cockburn Sound (W.A.)
  Garden Island (W.A.)
  Port Macquarie (N.S.W.)
  Hastings River (N.S.W.)
  Port Essington (N.T.)
  Burma
  Perth (W.A.)
  Moulmein (Burma)
  Rangoon (Burma)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9157280

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