MANUSCRIPT
Domett, Alfred 1811-1887 : Album
- Date
- Aug 1835
- By
- Domett, Alfred (Hon), 1811-1887; Renwick, Adeline, -1870Bett, Francis Arnot Blackader, 1873-1957; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881
- Reference
- qMS-0613
- Description
A scrap album containing one or two sketches by Domett, including one of Tom's whaling station at Porirua, a few lines in his writing, the beginning of a translation of a Latin poem and a pencil sketch of Miss Adeline Absolon
Relationship complexity - Photographs from selected illustrations in this album are in the collections of Drawings and Print, and Turbull Library Pictures
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (27 cm; green stamped leather)
Provenance: Formerly owned by Mrs Adeline Renwick (née Absolon) of Nelson
Sketches by Domett
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Manuscripts, Holograph and printed matter (27 cm; green stamped leather), Illustration: Sketches by Domett
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Copyright
UnknownToms' Porirua
Date: [18--]
From: Domett, Alfred 1811-1887 : Album
Reference: qMS-0613-070
Description: Sepia sketch 'Tom's Porirua' composed on the 17th January. There is no year indicated but Domett's album is dated 1835. Joseph Thoms' whaling station and hotel was located on Paremata Point, and was established by Thoms in 1835. A note in the front of the album from Francis Bett indicates that the sketch is unsigned and is possibly by Charles Heaphy [though Domett and Fox are also other possible artists]. Quantity: 1 piece. Physical Description: Sepia sketch 225mm x 158mm, on page 270mm x 225mm
Page of sketches
Date: [18--]
From: Domett, Alfred 1811-1887 : Album
Reference: qMS-0613-081
Description: Annotated piece of paper accompanying the sketches comments "These are by Heaphy probably. The descriptive writing is certainly his". Included in the sketches is `Geological researches - Private digging for pipe clay' and `Done in three movements' Quantity: 1 piece. Physical Description: Black ink sketches on two sections of paper
Pencil sketch of Adeline Absolon
Date: [18--]
From: Domett, Alfred 1811-1887 : Album
Reference: qMS-0613-096
Description: The sketch is undated but Domett's album is dated 1835. The sketch is unsigned but is possibly by Charles Heaphy Physical Description: Pencil sketch with detail in white watercolour 160mm x 195mm