Copy photographs of watercolour of Rockingham Bay, North Queensland

SPF/3603

fonds

1963 (of watercolour probably 19th century)

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9659308

3 photographic prints - gelatin silver

Copy photographs of watercolour, possibly by Thomas Huxley, of Rockingham Bay, North Queensland

Transferred from the Small Pictures File (Self Indexing File), Mitchell Library Reading Room, 2013 - SPF/Rockingham Bay, Queensland.
Transferred from PXA 2144/Box 13/no. 85 in May 2021
Extract from Mitchell Library correspondence accompanies photographs - letter to Right Rev. T.T. Reed:
"It is similar to the plate facing p.83 on vol. 1 of John MacGillivray's Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake by the late Captain Owen Stanley ... during the years 1846-1850 ... London, T.W. Boone, 1852. The plate is from a drawing by Thomas Huxley..."

The note advises that the Picture staff consider it possible that the watercolour is a copy of the published engraving. The Library advised that the words 'Rockingham Bay N.E. Coast Australia' may not be in the hand of Thomas Huxley. The words do not appear to be in Owen Stanley's or Macgillvray's hand either. The words 'Cutting through the scrub of Australia', seems to be in a different hand from the words quoted above. The title of the published plate is 'Cutting through the scrub' but it is listed in the list of plates as 'Cutting through the scrub at Rockingham Bay'.
Negative available at FM1/361