• Title
  Early Australian Watercolour Album, Septembr. 1886 / Walter H. Mayo
• Creator
  Walter H. Mayo
• Call number
  PXE 1680
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  Septembr. 1886
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1000018
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (58 drawings) - watercolour - 30.5 x 25 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Album comprises watercolour drawings on paper laid down on card. Includes drawings of the artist's visit to New South Wales between 1884 and 1886
  
  i. [Front end paper with artist's inscription]
  1. "A sociable ride"
  2a. [View of lighthouse]
  2b. [View of island with sailing boats]
  3. "From Liverpool across the Atlantic"
  4.. Last sight of England
  5. "In The Bay"
  6. "The Pilot coming aboard off the heads"
  7. "Cowcowfyfer" and Miss Woolwich (Alice) abord 'Aristides', July 1884 ; Miss Stokes, July 1884 ; Where I stayed in Bathurst (Denison's Creek), March 1885 ; Jack Marston at Prospect Bush
  8. Will, Dick, George and myself camping at hurstville, N S Wales, Jany 1886 ; Neverfail Bridge Illawara Line, where we worked during January 1886 over the Georges River
  9. Where I camped in march with Jack Marstan & his wife in Bus near Prospect, N.S.W., 1885 ; On the 'Wallaby Track' between Bathurst & Sydney during Febry 1885. Blue Mountains ahead ; Temora Church, N.S.W., attended in Febry 1885. Gold District
  10a. 'On the "look-out"
  10b. Feeding time
  11a. One of the "Lady Killers" - The Sydney Government Steam Tramways
  11b. S.V. "Brighton" alongside Manly Pier N.S.W.
  12. Crown Rocks, Temora, N.S.W. ; Mr McKenzie's House, Brewongle, N.S.W.
  13a. Captn Sutherland's mate Thomson ; Captn Sutherland of Phoebe ; Messrs J & A Browne's SS Phoebe of Newcastle, N.S.W. Running between Sydney, Newcastle, Morpeth and Raymond Terrace
  13b. Hut in Beaconsfield, Gippsland, Victoria, where Clarke and I stayed in April 1885, Haunted Gully
  14a. Boats seen in Colombo
  14b. Palace of Khedive Ismalia near Lake Tim sah, Suez Canal, 48 Miles from Port Said
  15a. Boats seen in Gib[raltar]
  15b. Part of Rock of Gilbraltar, 24.5.85
  16. "Galatea" S.V.
  17. North Foreland, Lt:Ho
  18. Maplin Lt Ho
  19. Dungeness
  20. Craft seen down the River , "Vestal", Sept. 1886
  21. Pulpit Rock, Cape Schnack
  22. Boulounge
  23. The Field of Waterloo
  24 "Kentish Knock", Light Vessel
  25. St. Pauls, Antwerp
  26a. Shortening Canvas in a Stiff Breeze
  26b. P&0 S.S. Pekin
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title on spine of album
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Artist's name and date inscribed on front endpaper of album
• Subject
  Galatea (Ship).
  S.S. Pekin (Ship)
  
• Topic
  tricycles
  lighthouses
  ships
  camping
  steam trams
  huts
  paddle steamers
  
• Place
  Bathurst (N.S.W.)
  Prospect (N.S.W.)
  Hurstville (N.S.W.)
  Oatley (N.S.W.)
  Temora (N.S.W.)
  Gippsland (Vic.)
  Colombo (Sri Lanka)
  Manly (N.S.W.)
  Port Said (Egypt)
  Gibraltar
  Point Nepean National Park (Vic.)
  Beaconsfield (Vic.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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