sketcher, drew views of the Yass and Murrumburrah districts in southern New South Wales in the 1850s. Her husband, a Queensland pioneer pastoralist whom she had married in 1849, later became Water Police magistrate in Sydney; his sister Fanny (Frances Lucy Mary Anne) was married to George Foster Wise, brother of Emily Anne Manning .
Mrs Marsh had a special interest in sketching houses and rural properties. Her sketchbook views (ML) not only include her own home, Demondrille, at Murrumburrah (which burnt down a few years later) but several neighbouring estates and the township of Yass. All are in charcoal or monotone washes, some on coloured paper. After moving to Sydney, Mrs Marsh sketched the Bloxsomes ' house, The Rangers at Mosman (when Stewart Russell was living there), Penelope Smith 's Dower House at Glenrock, Edgecliff, the Mitchells ' Carthona and the Morts’ Greenoaks at Darling Point. All are in pencil (ML).
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- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
