Guide to the Album of Richard Jones (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1180
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Jones, Richard
- Title
- Album of Richard Jones (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1840
- Collection Number
- M1180
- Extent
- 2 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
When Jones left Sydney to study at Cambridge in 1840 his friends presented him with an album of drawings, watercolours, engravings and poems. They depict members of the Jones Family, Sydney Heads, Hyde Park, St Philip's Church, the La Perouse Monument, and other places and people in Sydney.
In addition to the microfilm, colour transparencies have been made of the paintings.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Filmed at the private residence of Mrs I. Richards, Surrey, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1981 (AJCP Reel: M1180). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
The private residence of Mrs I. Richards. Surrey, England.
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn730756] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Hyde Park, Sydney, New South Wales; Jones Family; Jones, Richard; La Perouse Monument, Sydney, New South Wales; Paintings, drawings and prints: New South Wales; St Philip's Church, Sydney, New South Wales; Sydney Heads, New South Wales
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 261, p.97.
Biographical / Historical
Richard Jones was the son of the Sydney merchant, landowner, pastoralist and Member of the Legislative Council, Richard Jones (1786-1852).
Item Descriptions
Album presented to Richard Jones when he left Sydney to study at Cambridge University, 1840 (File 1)
The album includes paintings of his mother, St. Philips Church, Sydney Heads, Bona Vista, Mrs. Ferriter, Darlinghurst, Hyde Park, the La Perouse Monument, and a graveyard at Manila and also engravings of Richard Jones, Senior, and Lieutenant Ferriter, R.N.