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[Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
- Date
- 1878
- By
- Nolan, Gertrude Flora Cooke, -1934
- Reference
- E-881-f
- Description
Scrapbook thought to have been compiled by Miss Gertrude Flora Cooke Yarborough to record her travels, including a trip made in New Zealand in the company of artist Isa Outhwaite. The artworks are possibly by both women but are not signed. The scrapbook includes photographs of Miss Outhwaite, members of the Yarborough family including Alfred Cooke Yarborough of Hokianga (Gertrude's brother). Includes watercolours and photographs in the Channel Islands, Florence, the Hokianga harbour; Mr von Sturmer, Miss Marriner, Mr & Mrs Andrewes, Miss Webster, Sydney Weetman; Mangamuka, Opara, Mokoia Island, Ohinemutu, Blue Lake, Pink & White Terraces, Lake Tarawera; Egypt, County Wicklow, Glendalough, Aden, Europe.
The inside back page includes a page from Debrett's Peerage 1925, showing the extended family of Sir William Henry Charles Wemyss Cooke; this includes Gertrude Flora Cooke Yarborough, and her brother Alfred Cooke Yarborough (born 1847).
Also includes a 1933 invoice to Miss S L Nolan of Caulfield, Melbourne (a daughter or descendant of Gertrude F C Yarborough who married Lyster Andrew Nolan in 1884); 15 loose prints of Shakespearean poems and plays, published by Virtue and Company Ltd London.
The Graphic (London), 29 March 1879, pages 316-317 shows nine sketches illustrative of "A New Zealand Excursion by Two Ladies". These are said to be by Isa Outhwaite; page 315 describes the trip she took with "a genuine English lady, and myself, a true colonial".
Quantity: 1 album(s).
Physical Description: Album of 37 leaves bound in red-brown morocco, brown leather spine with gilt decoration, 430 x 340 mm.
Transfers: Some loose photographs from the album transferred to Photographic Archive PAColl-9314..
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- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 1 album(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Photographs, Engravings, Scrapbooks, Album of 37 leaves bound in red-brown morocco, brown leather spine with gilt decoration, 430 x 340 mm.
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Artist unknown :Snow-sheds at Summit Station - the end of the upgrade on the C.P.R.R. [...
Date: 1878
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-006-2
Description: Shows a view of several buildings at the end of the rail upgrade. According to the text this includes a very good hotel. Other Titles - Central Pacific Railroad Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 6, lower image Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 195 x 222 mm (cropped) plus text newsclipping 218 x 62 mm.
Photographer unknown :Rape of Polyxena [1870-1900s]
Date: 1875 - 1920
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-024-2
Description: Shows a photograph of the Rape of Polyxena, by sculptor Pio Fedi, 1866. It is situated in the Loggia dei Lanzi, in Florence. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 24, lower image Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 240 x 182 mm.
[Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], fl 1870-1917 :[Playing boules near Cannes? 1875-1880?]
Date: 1875 - 1880
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-020-2
Description: Shows a group of men in black hats, shirts and trousers with red cummerbunds, and a woman in a white dress. They are playing boules beside a low wall, against a background vista of a wide valley and distant snow-capped mountains. The location is likely to be near Cannes, judging from the images on neighbouring pages. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 20, lower image Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 226 mm.
[Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], fl 1870-1917 :Moulin Huet, Guernsey [1879]
Date: 1879
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-017
Description: Shows a view across a bay towards craggy rocks off a headland. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 17 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 243 x 348 mm.
Various photographers :[Savonarola, and other Italian photographs. 1870-1920s]
Date: 1875 - 1920
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-026
Description: Shows Fra Bartolomeo's profile portrait of Savonarola, inscribed below: Hieronymi Ferrariensis a Deo missi prophetae effigies. Also shows a procession of hooded figures carrying a coffin or litter, and a torn photograph of The Execution of Savonarola in the Piazza della Signora, Florence, on 23 May 1498 (painting attributed to Francesco Rosselli). Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 26 Quantity: 3 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photographs, on page 412 x 305 mm.
[Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], fl 1870-1917 :Cannes east [1875-1880?]
Date: 1875 - 1880
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-021-2
Description: Shows a view along the coast to the east, from above the town of Cannes. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 21, upper image Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 267 x 183 mm.
[Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], fl 1870-1910s :[Cloisters of St Marco, Florence. 18...
Date: 1870 - 1920
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-030-2
Description: Unfinished watercolour shows a section of the cloisters at San Marco, with glimpses of the pictures on the curved vaulted ceilings. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, loose at page 30, lower image Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 272 x 188 mm.
Photographer unknown :[Photographs of Niagara Falls, and ivy decoration in watercolour....
Date: 1878
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-009
Description: Shows two views of Niagara Falls, on efrom the Canadian side, and one of the Horseshoe Fall. At top left is a watercolour illustration of a trail of ivy leaves on a stem. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 9 Quantity: 2 photograph(s). 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia photographs, sizes varying, a watercolour, on page 412 x 305 mm.
[Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], fl 1870-1917 :[Watercolours and portrait photograph...
Date: 1875 - 1880
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-019
Description: Page includes two watercolours of the country around Cannes. The decorative ink drawings show daisies. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 19 Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). 2 photograph(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, ink drawing and photographs, on page 412 x 310 mm.
Photographer unknown :A pyramid [Climbers on a Pyramid at Giza. 1877-1920?]
Date: 1877 - 1920
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-059
Description: Photograph shows Egyptians and Europeans on the huge stones of a small section of one of the Pyramids at Giza. Other Titles - Gizeh Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 59. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photograph, 288 x 229 mm.