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Title
Hamon Massie family pictorial collection, including watercolours by Anna Sarah Rachel Wauch of life in Hastings River region, botanical watercolours from the circle of John Lhotsky, and drawing of residence of R. G. Massie by Conrad Martens
Call number
PXD 1576
Level of description
fonds
Date

probably between 1833 and 1858
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Drawings
Reference code
9664924
Physical Description
24 watercolours - various sizes
1 drawing - graphite - 18 x 30 cm
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Anna Sarah Rachel Wauch (1828-1904) was the eldest of four children of Captain Andrew Wauch of the 48th Regiment of Foot and Mary Makin, née Gillot, who arrived in New South Wales in March 1836. The family settled at Wauchope near Port Macquarie. Anna married Spencer Collard, a settler from the New England area, in St Peter’s Church of England, Armidale, on 6 February 1855. She was also known as A. S. R. Wauch, A. S. R. Collard, and Mrs Collard.

References:
Design & Art Australia Online. https://www.daao.org.au/ (accessed 30 October 2019)
Library correspondence file
Collection history
The paintings were given to R.G. Massie, Land Commissioner of the Port Macquarie area, by Mrs Collard (nee Wauch), thence by descent Massie family to present owner. Reference Library correspondence file
Scope and Content
ANNA SARAH RACHEL COLLARD (née WAUCH)
1. [A Ball at Lake Innes House, near Port Macquarie, probably 1847]
1 watercolour : with ink and graphite ; 26 x 40 cm.

2. Squatters of 1847. Land[?] at 1/10d per H[?], [no date]
1 watercolour : with ink ; 26 x 35 cm
Titled below image. Boulogne Fish-Girl [print, coloured] attached verso.

3. Preparing to break[?] a colt for first time, [no date]
1 watercolour : with ink ; 24 x 36 cm
Titled below image.

4. An awkward dilemma, [no date]
1 watercolour : with ink ; 26 x 37 cm
Titled below image. "A Sketch in the Fruit Market at Rio Janeiro" by J Gilbert [print, coloured] attached verso.

5. [Stockmen driving a pied bull, no date]
1 watercolour ; 21 x 36 cm.

6. [The Racecourse, Port Macquarie, no date]
1 watercolour : with ink ; 26 x 42 cm.

7. The departure of his Excellency July 18 - from Port Macquarie...Picture by Mrs Collet [sic.] nee Waugh [sic.] of Wauchope, [probably 1847]
1 watercolour : with ink ; 24 x 42 cm
Titled at side of image, very faint graphite inscription below image. The Christmas Carol Singer from a painting by Harrison Weir 1858 published in Illustrated London News Christmas supplement [print, coloured], with 2 small prints, attached verso.

8. Billy Gipps, taken from the blacks in childhood and trained to be a good groom, [no date]
1 watercolour and graphite drawing ; 24 x 30 cm
Titled from inscription verso of drawing.

9. Moobuc, Chief of the Kings River tribe / AW Fecit February 16th 1851
1 watercolour ; 21 x 25 cm
Titled, signed and dated below image.

10. [Landscape with Xanthorrhoeas], 1846
1 watercolour ; 24 x 37 cm
Dated '1846' in ink bottom right below image.

11. [Dismounted rider, possibly an officer, fighting with Indigenous Australian man, probably near Port Macquarie, no date]
1 watercolour ; 33 x 51 cm.

12. [Two horsemen with Indigenous tracker or scout viewing countryside, probably in mountains near Port Macquarie, no date]
1 watercolour ; 45 x 52 cm
Inscribed bottom right in image 'June[?] S.R. [?]'.

13. [Three horsemen mustering horses, probably near Port Macquarie, no date]
1 watercolour ; 38 x 51 cm.

14. [Three horses in flooded paddock, probably near Port Macquarie, no date]
1 watercolour ; 38 x 51 cm.

15. [Horse race, no date]
1 watercolour : with ink and coloured pencil ? ; 26 x 38 cm
Inscribed in pencil below image 'no. 7'.

16. [Dismounted rider with gun, no date]
1 watercolour ; 30 x 51 cm.

17. Returning horses doing the best [?], [no date]
1 watercolour : with ink ; 26 x 40 cm
Titled below image. Inscribed below image 'No 3'.

18. [Group of horse riders outside cottage, with Indigenous Australian groom, no date]
1 watercolour : with ink ; 26 x 42 cm
Inscribed below image 'No 4'.

19. [Horse and rider, no date]
1 watercolour : with ink

20. [Horse and rider, no date]
1 watercolour : with ink

21. [Horse and rider, no date]
1 watercolour : with ink

CIRCLE OF JOHN LHOTSKY
22. Lambertia Formosa. R. Br. Splendid Lambertia Port Jackson N.S. Wales / Dr. Lhotsky Direxit Sydney ae[?] 1833[?]
1 watercolour ; 38 x 28 cm
Titled lower right of image. Signed and dated lower left.

23. Grevillia buxifolia. R. Br. Port Jackson N.S. Wales / Dr Lhotsky direxit Sydney ae 1833
1 watercolour ; 38 x 27 cm
Titled lower right of image. Signed and dated lower left.

24. Thysanotus junceur[?]. R. Br. Fringed Violet. Port Jackson N.S. Wales / Dr Lhotsky direxit Sydney ae[?] 1833
1 watercolour ; 38 x 27 cm
Titled lower right of image. Signed and dated lower left.

CONRAD MARTENS
25. Crown Lands R G Massie Commissioner’s cottage on the Macleay by Conrad Martens,
1 drawing : graphite ; 18 x 30 cm
Titled below image. Signed and dated lower right below image ‘C Martens / April 18th 18[?].
Access Conditions

Access via appointment
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Black and white copy photographs of some of the watercolours and drawing were made by the Library in 1974 and are available at Mitchell Library call nos. PXA 7231 and PXA 7232.
Date note

Dated from collection.
Creator/Author/Artist
Lhotsky, John, 1795-1865?
Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878
Wauch, Anna Sarah Rachel, 1828-1904
Subject
Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
Botanical illustration--Australia.
Country life--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
Dwellings--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
Horse racing--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
Horses--Pictorial works.
Landscapes--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
Racetracks (Horse racing)--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
Place
Port Macquarie District (N.S.W.)
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