Georgiana Lowe b. c.1813

Also known as Lady Sherbrooke, Georgiana Orred, Georgiana Sherbrooke
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and landscape gardener. The Mitchell Library's collection includes numerous views taken around Nelson Bay, many depicting Bronte and its gardens.

Citations

  • Cable, K.J. (March 1968), 'Mrs Barker and her diary’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 54/1, .

  • Anderson, Ingrid & Kerr, Joan (1995), '(Georgiana Lowe and image)’, Sydney, NSW : in Heritage.

  • Knight, R.L. (1967), 'Robert Lowe Viscount Sherbrooke’, Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, (Volume 2), Pike, D. (ed.).

  • Kerr, J (1980), 'Colonial ladies’ sketchbooks’, Art and Australia 17/4.

  • Martin, A.P. (1892), 'Life & Letters of the Right Honourable Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke’, London, England, UK.

  • Organ, M, 'The Black Angel, Georgiana Lowe in Australia 1842-1850. Her life letters and art’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (manuscript 5100).

  • Lowe,Georgiana, 'Letters 1840-49’, Newcastle, NSW : Newcastle Region Art Gallery (M4/1535); Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (microfilm).

  • Knight, R.L. (1966), 'Illiberal Liberal, Robert Lowe’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Kerr, J (1982), 'The architectural importance of early colonial ladies’ sketchbooks’, Newcastle, NSW : Australasian Victorian Studies Association (conference papers).

  • Kerr, J. & Broadbent, J. (1980), 'Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions