sketcher, lived on Glenmore Station, near Rockhampton, a property still owned by the Birkbeck in 2000. ADC’s pencil sketches include sketchbook drawings of:
110. Attack by native police on an Aboriginal camp
111. Glenmore Station cattle muster and
112. Aboriginal camp
The original sketches remain at Glenmore with the family but photographic copies are in the Central Queensland University (CQU)Capricornia Library. The family album that includes them also has an ink drawing of a bird signed 'Ronde [?] J. Green’ (photographic copy CQU labelled verso 'drawing by member of Birkbeck family’). Other CQU copied material includes:
113. Death certificate of William Birkbeck of Westmoreland d. 10 June 1698 (married into the D’Arcy family of Stanmore Hall, Middlesex)
114. Pencil sketch by a member of the Birkbeck family of Glenmore Station of a Canoe Tree
123. Photograph of old log cabin on Glenmore Station.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1999
- Last updated:
- 2011
