15. Old Bridge / Near Capt. Wickombes House. Brisbane River. / May 23 - 1849

1. Island of Tristian d'Acunha / Thursday March 17th 1842 at 10.30. A ... Bearing S W by W / D is about 20 miles [with distance notes at upper right]

2a. Botany Bay 30 Novr. 1842. [Landscape with grave. Inscription on tree] "F.T. Larsen / Les Restes /  Receveur / te Tars"

2b. Rules / your distance from the object should always exceed .... [pencil perspective sketch with notes on measuring distance]

3a. North Head Woranggi [sketch of Twofold Bay with places marked]

3b. [unfinished pencil sketches of map and whales or sharks]

4. Camp Beermuna / Twofold Bay - Decr. 16th 1842 / N.S.W. / O.W.B.

5. [Camp] Monday Evg [i.e. evening] - 2nd Jany 43 ...

6. Bloomah / Toby's Gin / Twofold Bay / Jany. 9th 1843 / O.W.B.

7. Fish caught in Twofold Bay Australia / (natural size) / Memo / The Body is mainly transparent - The Fins are very delicate and vibrate with great rapidity / The Mouth is placed at the extremity of a tubular snout

8. Peak Range from the Camp / 1847

9. [Bush with mountains in background]

10a. Rockingm Bay / June 3d 48 / Kennedys Camp

10b. [Sail boat, unfinished sketch]

11. Morning 4th June 1848 - / Start of Kennedy's Expedition 9.30 am

12. A Surveyor Tent - Bush of Australia

13. H.M.S. Rattlesnake / Frankland Islands / 13 June 1848 / 1st Cutter recall [in pencil at upper left of image, with notes at right]. Reef at one of the Frankland Islands - Inner Passage Great Barrier Reef of Australia / H.M.S. Rattlesnake June 13 1848 [on mount below image].

14a. Vally [i.e. valley] Lizard Islands looking S.E. Aug 5 48

14b. Vally [i.e. valley] Lizard Islands looking S.E. Aug 5 48

14c. [unfinished sketch on reverse of sheet 14b]

[14a and 14b together to make panorama]

16. [Coral beach, possibly on an island in the Inner Passage, with sailing ship in distance]

17. Watering Party / "Sud Est" Island. / Louisiade Archipelago / June 26 1849

18. Women of Dufaure I. / Co. New Guinea / Dufaure Island / Sept 9 1849 / O.W.B.

19. Mask procured from Native / Evans Bay - / Cape York / October 12- 1848 - [with notes on dimensions, description of materials, and ceremonial use]

20. Kokenyan [ant hill] Dec. 1-1849 / circumference at base 20 feet / 13 feet high

21. NW End. Three Isles of [or and] Cape Flattery ... / July 29/48 [with notes]

22. 'The Recall' (Imperieuse-) a gun for Admiral,  .... signal /  .... Leewd / 7 am May 17 1854 / Looking Westerly

23. Esmeralda 9th June [with notes]

24. [Landscape]

25. [Boats on river with building in foreground, inscribed in pencil on the reverse, "Plans & Maps of / Boyd Town"]

26. Encounter with Natives - / Louisiade Archipelago - [drawn by Huxley]

27. [Beach scene with boats off-shore]

28. [Ships in Farm Cove, photograph of Brierly watercolour painted in 1884]

29. Invitation, "Miss Brierly requests the pleasure of / _ company / to view the few remaining Sketches and Studies / by the late Sir Oswald W. Brierly, R.W.S. / (Marine Painter to Queen Victoria), / on Thursday, November 10th, 11 to 5, / in the Galleries of Messrs. Elliott & Fry, / 55, Baker Street, Portman  Square, W., / by kind permission of Ernest C. Elliott, Esq. / The Sketches will remain on view until Dec. 1st" [printed]

Oswald W.B. Brierly - sketches mainly of Twofold Bay and the voyage of the  H.M.S. Rattlesnake in New Guinea and the Louisiade Archipelago, ca. 1842-1854

1. Island of Tristian d'Acunha / Thursday March 17th 1842 at 10.30. A ... Bearing S W by W / D is about 20 miles [with distance notes at upper right]
2a. Botany Bay 30 Novr. 1842. [Landscape with grave. Inscription on tree] "F.T. Larsen / Les Restes /  Receveur / te Tars" 
2b. Rules / your distance from the object should always exceed .... [pencil perspective sketch with notes on measuring distance] 
3a. North Head Woranggi [sketch of Twofold Bay with places marked]
3b. [unfinished pencil sketches of map and whales or sharks]
4. Camp Beermuna / Twofold Bay - Decr. 16th 1842 / N.S.W. / O.W.B.
5. [Camp] Monday Evg [i.e. evening] - 2nd Jany 43 ...
6. Bloomah / Toby's Gin / Twofold Bay / Jany. 9th 1843 / O.W.B.
7. Fish caught in Twofold Bay Australia / (natural size) / Memo / The Body is mainly transparent - The Fins are very delicate and vibrate with great rapidity / The Mouth is placed at the extremity of a tubular snout
8. Peak Range from the Camp / 1847
9. [Bush with mountains in background]
10a. Rockingm Bay / June 3d 48 / Kennedys Camp
10b. [Sail boat, unfinished sketch]
11. Morning 4th June 1848 - / Start of Kennedy's Expedition 9.30 am
12. A Surveyor Tent - Bush of Australia
13. H.M.S. Rattlesnake / Frankland Islands / 13 June 1848 / 1st Cutter recall [in pencil at upper left of image, with notes at right]. Reef at one of the Frankland Islands - Inner Passage Great Barrier Reef of Australia / H.M.S. Rattlesnake June 13 1848 [on mount below image].
14a. Vally [i.e. valley] Lizard Islands looking S.E. Aug 5 48
14b. Vally [i.e. valley] Lizard Islands looking S.E. Aug 5 48
14c. [unfinished sketch on reverse of sheet 14b]
15. Old Bridge / Near Capt. Wickombes House. Brisbane River. / May 23 - 1849
16. [Coral beach, possibly on an island in the Inner Passage, with sailing ship in distance]
17. Watering Party / "Sud Est" Island. / Louisiade Archipelago / June 26 1849
18. Women of Dufaure I. / Co. New Guinea / Dufaure Island / Sept 9 1849 / O.W.B.
19. Mask procured from Native / Evans Bay - / Cape York / October 12- 1848 - [with notes on dimensions, description of materials, and ceremonial use] 
20. Kokenyan [ant hill] Dec. 1-1849 / circumference at base 20 feet / 13 feet high
21. NW End. Three Isles of [or and] Cape Flattery ... / July 29/48 [with notes]
22. 'The Recall' (Imperieuse-) a gun for Admiral,  .... signal /  .... Leewd / 7 am May 17 1854 / Looking Westerly 
23. Esmeralda 9th June [with notes]
24. [Landscape]
25. [Boats on river with building in foreground, inscribed in pencil on the reverse, "Plans & Maps of / Boyd Town"]
26. Encounter with Natives - / Louisiade Archipelago - [drawn by Huxley]
27. [Beach scene with boats off-shore]
28. [Ships in Farm Cove, photograph of Brierly watercolour painted in 1884]
29. Invitation, "Miss Brierly requests the pleasure of / _ company / to view the few remaining Sketches and Studies / by the late Sir Oswald W. Brierly, R.W.S. / (Marine Painter to Queen Victoria), / on Thursday, November 10th, 11 to 5, / in the Galleries of Messrs. Elliott & Fry, / 55, Baker Street, Portman  Square, W., / by kind permission of Ernest C. Elliott, Esq. / The Sketches will remain on view until Dec. 1st" [printed]

The Art of exploration

Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly

Any news of La Perouse?

Le Mystere Laperouse : enquete dans le Pacifique Sud

15. Old Bridge / Near Capt. Wickombes House. Brisbane River. / May 23 - 1849

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