Edward Backhouse. Sketchbook of Van Diemen's Land, Flinders Island, Norfolk Island, and South Africa
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- File 1/7/16
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Sketches by Charles Wheeler and James Backhouse of scenery, flora and fauna (c100p.)
Subjects include: Hobart Town, 1834; Indigenous Australians of New South Wales; Norfolk and Phillip Islands; Wedgetailed Eagle, Van Diemen's Land; Fern Valley, Van Diemen's Land; entrance to Port Davey; Fort Macquarie, Sydney Cove; chain gang going to work, 'are their garments too much torn?'; grass trees, Flinders Island; Sydney Cove, 3 March 1835; Mount Warning; Kelvedon, Van Diemen's Land, residence of Francis Cotton; Port Macquarie tree fern; South West coast of Van Diemen's Land 5 January 1832.
Includes: Miscellaneous correspondence and copies of engravings of some of the sketches.
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- M2836
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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