watercolourist, wrote Scenes during a Passage from England which describes in verse the events of the voyage to Australia and is illustrated with watercolour drawings, including views of Sydney Harbour and Sydney Heads. The manuscript, intended for Miss Hindmarsh, the author’s aunt in England, was apparently begun in 1853 but following the death of a parent Hindmarsh abandoned it until the following year. It would seem that J.H.S. Hindmarsh was John (1820-1902), only son of John Hindmarsh, first governor of South Australia, and Susannah, née Edmeades, who came to Adelaide with his parents in 1836, left with them in 1838 and returned to South Australia in the mid 1850s. Neither parent, however, appears to have died at the appropriate time; Lady Hindmarsh died in 1858, Sir John in 1860. The present location of Hindmarsh’s illustrated poem is unknown and it is possible that the date was incorrectly cited when it was sold in 1927.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
