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Abstract
Sketch from the scrapbook of Sarah E.E. Mitchell of Lisdillon on the East Coast of Tasmania 1875.
Sketch 134, taken 1869, by Catherine Mitchell, depicting a man in a storm on a dark night.
A very windy night, Mr W.J. Lyne, returning from Red Banks, seeing Patty Shaw, (Martha Coats Shaw) lost his top hat, which was found on Waterloo Point, by the Roman Catholic Church, “Star of the Sea”, with a stone in it – Swansea winds are famous.
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 |
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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, Red Banks, Swansea, Patty Shaw, Martha Coats Shaw, Mr W J Lyne, top hat, Waterloo Point, Roman Catholic Church, Star of the Sea, wind. |
Publisher: | University of Tasmania Special and Rare Collections and The Royal Society of Tasmania |
Copyright Information: | This is an unpublished literary work created in the late 19th century. 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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