File 1: Scrapbook compiled by Elizabeth Maria Goldfinch

PXE 1811/Box 1

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1808-1904, compiled 1867-1933

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs

9662484

1 scrapbook (14 drawings, 112 pages) - ink, pencil, albumen - 25 x 21 cm

Family scrapbook with red embossed case kept by Elizabeth Maria Goldfinch containing approximately 112 pages of copied poetry, verse and essays in iron gall ink, drawings and photographs some annotated in pencil. Includes:
Pencil sketch of a house, dated March 16, 50 (attributed to Conrad Martens)
Tahiti, 1836 pencil sketch signed P.G.K
A trip to Penrith, April 1836, pencil sketch signed P.G.King - on page inscribed Mr & Mrs H.H. Macarthur, Captain and Mrs P.P. King, 1836
My Mother, Mrs Philip Gidley King, albumen photograph
Mrs P.G. King & John King
Clovelly Sydney New South Wales, pencil sketch of a homestead
The Heads of Sydney Harbour, pencil sketch, the cliffs depicted as human heads
Albumen photographs
North Head signed P.G.K watercolour
Page of reproduced autographs individually dated, watercolour
Boat, pencil sketch unsigned undated
Matte Kempsey, Vineyard 1836, watercolour
Pen and ink pencil sketches of people on horses
The departure from Vineyard, pencil sketch unsigned undated
Vineyard girls, 1836, pencil sketch unsigned undated
First election in Parramatta, H.H. Macarthur returned. Election of H.H. McA, Parramatta June 14 1843, pencil sketch unsigned
[Lady on a horse] signed E.M.K, ink
A view of Grand Cairo (et voila c’est fini!) signed on back Phillip King Novr 1808

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

The watercolour drawing by Phillip Parker King dated November 1808, is similar in style to several watercolours in an album of Phillip Parker King drawings (Mitchell Library call no. PXC 767).

Also included is a small watercolour drawing of a gentleman sweeping, identified on the back as ‘Matte Kemsey, Vineyard 1836’. The Library holds a similar watercolour drawing 'Matty Kempsey [convict], Vineyard, 1840 by P.G. King [II]' (Mitchell Library call no. PXA 915/2-53).

This scrapbook contains pages of verse copied in iron gall ink and dated prior to the birth of Elizabeth Maria Goldfinch. It is possible she inherited the scrapbook from a family member or copied the verses from old sources. In addition, some of the photographs and drawings interspersed throughout the scrapbook are annotated in soft graphite pencil in a modern, possibly 20th century hand.