• Title
  Blacket family - pencil sketches and watercolours, 1863-1875, 1891
• Call number
  PXE 925/Box 3
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1863-1875, 1891
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  439829
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 67 pencil sketches (some with wash) and 4 watercolour drawings - various sizes
  
• Scope and Content
  PENCIL SKETCHES, 1863-1875, 1891
  1. [2 residences] / Augt. 18th, 1863
  2. [Hut with post and rail fence] / Augt. 27th, 1863
  3. The Trebolgan / July 5th /65 ; [streetscape sketch on reverse]
  4. Glebe Point / Octr. 3rd 1865 ; C.S. Toping, Sydney Oct, 1865 on reverse
  5. [Harbour view] / October 11th, 1865
  6. Oct 26th, 1865, The Glebe
  7. [Residence] / Novr. 29th, 1865
  8. [Streetscape] / Decr. 27th, 1865
  9. [Residence] / Jany. 31st, 1866
  10. [Residence] / November 1st, 1866
  11. The Stony Hill, Bickham, Jany. 21st, 1867
  12. Bickham, Feby. 4th, 1867
  13. Robertson / March 21. 67
  14. Bickham Verandah / April 10th, 1867
  15. [Residence in bay] / May 16, 1867
  16. [Residence and harbour view] / Augt. 6, 67
  17. [View of Ocean St. & Double Bay] / Augt. 6, 1867
  18. [Residences] / Augt. 7, 1867 ; [unfinished sketch on reverse]
  19. Cowan & Israels soap works / Augt. 14th, 1867
  20. Augt. 14th, 67 / The Glebe ; [unfinished sketch of church on reverse]
  21. Augt. 28th, 1867 / [Glebe Point] ; [unfinished sketch of church on reverse]
  22. [Bridge view] / Octr. 16, 1867 ; [sketch on reverse of bed and cradle]
  23. The Glebe / Novr. 20, 1867
  24. The Glebe / March 5th, 1868
  25. The Glebe / March 11, 1868
  26. [City view, with Observatory Hill at left] / March 23rd, 1868
  27. The Kakian [?] / March 27, 1868
  28. From Fort Phillip / March 27, 1868
  29. [View of Carthona] / April 1st, 1868
  30. Challenger - Charybdis - Galatea / April 2nd, 1868
  31. The Glebe / April 9th, /68 (signed EB at lower right)
  32. The Glebe / Oct. 16, 1868 (signed EB at lower right)
  33. View from Cabbage tree Bay / Feby. 23, /69
  34. Glebe, 1870 The Glebe, our house
  35. [Blackets house, Darling Street, Balmain] / Jany. 26, 1871
  36. Iron Cove / Augt. 7th, 1871
  37. Balmain / Octr. 17, /71
  38. Balmain / Decr. 23rd, /71
  39. Balmain / Feby. 2nd, 1872
  40. Balmain / Feby. 2nd, 1872
  41. March 19th /72 / Balmain
  42. Eugowra / Sep 22nd /73
  43. Eugowra / Sep 27th /73
  44. Eugowra / Sept. 1873
  45. Dodds House Balmain, Australia / E.N. Blacket, Oct 73
  46. Eugowra / Novr. 4th /73
  47. Eugowra / Novr. 14th /73
  48. Eugowra / Jany. 27 /74
  49. Eugowra / Jany. /74
  50. Eugowra / Sep 20 /75 "Mens hut & limekiln"
  51. Eugowra / Decr. 14 /91
  52. The Glebe / Mr OConnors house
  53. At the Glebe
  54. [View of Fort Macquarie, Government House, wharves & harbour]
  55. [Sydney Cove]
  56-67. [Untitled, undated sketches, no.62 with sketch of rowing boats on reverse]
  
  WATERCOLOURS
  68. Lane Cove Church
  69. View from Grandfathers bedroom window at Balmain
  70. [Harbour view]
  71. [The Glebe] see pencil sketch no.31
• System of arrangement
  Chronological
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Edith Blacket, eldest daughter of Edmund and Sarah Blacket, was a talented sketcher, and probably sketched the drawings of Eugowra. Edith, married Hanbury Clements of Eugowra Station, near the junction of the Mandagery Creek and the Lachlan River, N.S.W.
  Reference: My name is Blacket / by Nick Vine Hall. Belrose [N.S.W.] : N.J. Vine Hall, 1983.
  No.23 identified as The Retreat, Leichhardt Street, Glebe Point with Glebe bridge in the background. -- Clive Lucas, Architect and Heritage Consultant, Feb 2004
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824205
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Only three of the sketches are signed. Nos. 31-2 "EB" and No. 45 "E.N. Blacket".
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Blacket, Edith, 1844-1928
  
• Name
  Blacket family
  Charybdis (ship)
  Cowan & Israel (soap makers)
  Trebolgan (sailing ship)
  
• Subject
  Challenger (Ship).
  Galatea (Ship).
  
• Topic
  bays
  bridges
  churches
  country scenes
  houses
  sailing ships
  sketches
  soap factories
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Balmain (N.S.W.)
  Bickham (residence)
  Carthona (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
  Double Bay (N.S.W.)
  Glebe (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1060240

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