Lot 227
  • 227

CORDELIA ELLEN THOMAS

Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 AUD
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Description

  • Cordelia Ellen Thomas
  • ALBUM OF VIEWS, SKETCHES, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS FROM INDIA, FIJI AND AUSTRALIA
  • Scrap book
    88 pages including ephermeral items (19), sketches (25), a letter, poems (14), watercolours (5), photographs and postcards

    Inscribed on opening page: 'Presented to Cordelia Ellen, Husband on her leaving England by Mrs Richard G. Reeves, London, 16th August 1852 and (in another hand) Georgiana C. H. Thomas July 12th 1873'
  • Watercolour and pencil sketches
  • Contents date from 1850s, 1870s and later

Provenance

The artist; thence by descent
Private collection, Tasmania

Condition

Condition fair. Front and rear boards detached, spine missing but binding intact - 90 folios. 4 folios detached and 1 cut out and re-inserted loose. Both scrapbook pages and attached photographs, sketches and other material variously slightly faded and/or stained; small tears throughout, esp. at edges. 24 pages/documents inserted loose: photographs, genealogical/historical texts, press cuttings, etc.
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