Australasia- Young (Augusta Juliana, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, Governor of South Australia and of Tasmania, 1829-1913), Compiled by. An album of 27 original drawings, including landscapes of Tasmania, New Zealand, and a landscape with Aboriginal Australians, including three fine landscape studies of Tasmania attributed to Margaret Sarah Cleburne (1829-1885), with one initialled 'M.S.C.', two watercolour landscapes with Aboriginal Australians by John Rae (1813-1900), two pencil studies of New Zealand by an unidentified hand, one of Oakura Bay, two botanical studies, and a group of 16 other loose watercolours by various hands, some of the Far East, two sheets of costume studies initialled 'F.M' (possibly Frank Marryat (1826–1855, who served on HMS Samarang), several figure studies of people from Borneo, one signed 'Will[iam] H. Browne/ HMS Samarang', others possibly in the hand of Augusta Juliana Young, with miscellaneous cuttings and prints, various sizes, all presented in an album, many artworks loose, some leaves missing, front free endpaper inscribed Augusta Juliana Young 14th April 1869', black lacquer covers decorated with floral inlays with hand-painted inset oval with 'The Minstrels', scuffed, lacking spine, lower cover with crack to corner, detached but present, worn, 4to, [circa 1840-1870]; together with Sir Henry Edward Fox Young's manuscript journal, title page inscribed 'H.E.F.Young', with 20 pp. of manuscript entries written by Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, many blank leaves, 8vo, 1834 [and later]; and with 13 cabinet card photographs of the Young family and others, including photograph portraits of Sir Henry Edward Fox Young (1829-1913), his wife, Augusta Sophia Young, neé Marryat (1829-1913), and a portrait of their five daughters including Augusta Julian Young (b. 1850), each approx. 165 x 108 mm (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in), some spotting and surface dirt, loose, unframed, [late 19th century] (Sm. qty.)

Provenance:
[Diary] Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, Governor of South Australia and of Tasmania, 1829-1913);
[Album and cabinet cards] Augusta Julian Young (b. 1850);
Thence by descent;
Anonymous sale, acquired by the present owners, 2025

⁂ Important 19th century album and small archive, with fine artworks of Tasmania, Australia, and the Far East, documenting the environment experienced by early settlers of Tasmania. Artworks by the Australian woman artist Margaret Sarah Cleburne rarely appear on the open market.

Artworks in the present album attributed to Margaret Sarah Cleburne (1829-1885) include: (1) 'Near Risdon, on the Derwent, Tasmania', pencil, scratching out, prepared ground with oval stencilled wash background, title inscribed in lower margin, sheet 185 x 264 mm (7 1/4 x 10 3/8 in); (2) 'From Woodville on the Derwent, Tasmania', pencil, scratching out, prepared ground with stencilled wash background, signed with initials 'M.S.C.' in the lower left corner, title inscribed in lower margin, sheet 180 x 264 mm (7 1/8 x 10 3/8 in); (3) 'Mount Direction, near Risdon, on the Derwent', pencil, scratching out, prepared ground with circular stencilled wash background, title inscribed in lower margin, sheet 180 x 267 mm (7 1/8 x 10 1/2 in).