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Abstract

Sketch from the scrapbook of Sarah E.E. Mitchell of Lisdillon on the East Coast of Tasmania 1874.

Sketch 20 - Taken 1872 - by Catherine Mitchell.
Kate & S.E.E.M riding home from Hobart after the Queen’s birthday ball at Government House, in Mr Charles Ducane & the Honorable Mrs Ducane’s time. It was my first ball on June 2nd when I was 18 yrs old. The Band in the gallery played the Canary Bird Waltz & all seemed so pretty – Father was Member of the House of Assembly for Glamorgan, which he was for seven years afterwards from 1873 to 1880 – He met us in our dress-up & did not know us – Riding from Richmond to Runnemede Mark missed us. Miss Mary Allen who rode out to meet us, was thrown & dazed. Just then Alexander Graham over took us also riding from Hobart. Kate told me to ride on with him while she returned & saw Miss M. Allen safe with the people she came from & then rode late & dark to Runnemede & stayed the night. On to Woodsden next day with Mark S.M, & home to Lisdillon.
The sketches by Catherine Penwarne (Kate), eldest daughter of John and Catherine Mitchell (of Cornwall, England, who settled at Lisdillon, East Coast Tasmania in 1852) were made between 1860 and 1876, and portray aspects of 19th Century social and domestic life. Catherine’s sketches were compiled by her sister Sarah. E.E.Mitchell. Derived from her own collection, from those of friends and relations, and from John Ball, Kate's husband, they were compiled sometime between 1928 and 1933. The sketches are mounted in an album, together with: locks of Kate's hair on red silk; a pressed fern arrangement; a coloured photograph of John and Catherine Ball; and coloured views of Buckland Churchyard in 1850, showing the grave of Paul Thomas Mitchell, aged 3 days, and in 1879 showing the grave of Catherine Penwarne Ball. The scrapbook was bequeathed to The Royal Society of Tasmania in 1946.
RS 32/4

Item Type:	Other
Authors/Creators:	Mitchell, Sarah and Mitchell, Catherine
Keywords:	Sarah E.E. Mitchell, Catherine Mitchell, Tasmania, Australia, social history, 19th Century, Lisdillon, East Coast Tasmania, The Royal Society of Tasmania, Mark S Mitchell, Hobart, visit, riding, Queen’s birthday ball, Government House, Charles Duane, music, dancing, Mr John Mitchell, father, House of Assembly, Richmond, Runnymede, Miss Mary Allen, accident, Alexander Graham, Woodsden
Publisher:	University of Tasmania Special and Rare Collections and The Royal Society of Tasmania
Copyright Information:	This is an unpublished literary work created between 1860 and 1875. Copyright subsists in this item.
Collections:	Royal Society Collection > Mitchell Collection > Sketchbook Collection Royal Society Collection
Additional Information:	This material may be requested from the Library for research and study purposes as provided for in the Copyright Act 1968. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.Collections@utas.edu.au When reusing this material, please provide the following acknowledgement: “Courtesy of the UTAS Library Special & Rare Collections, The Royal Society of Tasmania, The Mitchell Family and The Plomley Foundation. From The Royal Society of Tasmania Collection RS 32/4”
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