Item 04: Apollo Bay and Cape Otway, 1859 - 1862 / Eugene Von Guerard
Item 04: Apollo Bay and Cape Otway, 1859 - 1862 / Eugene Von Guerard
About this item
Full title
Date
1859-1862
Call Numbers
DL PXX 15
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 album - sizes range from 18.4 x 31 cm. to 33 x 143 cm. in album 37.5 x 58.5 cm. - 14 drawings in pencil (9), pencil and crayon (4), and ink and watercolour (1), mounted on alternate leaves
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
14 drawings in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering) titled Von Guerard / Apollo Bay and Cape Otway. Some drawings comprise separate sheets pasted together and folded.
[i.] Fortes Fortuna Junvat, William Dixson [bookplate on front cover verso]
f. 1. ... Apollo Bay & Cape Otway ... No. 12, 1859-186...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 04: Apollo Bay and Cape Otway, 1859 - 1862 / Eugene Von Guerard
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 949528...
Signature / Inscriptions
Pencil inscriptions place names, and dates. Drawings are titled, and all are dated, except f. 2; all unsigned. Some drawings have extensive notes (in German). Titles are also in Sir William Dixson’s [?] hand, on mount at lower right.
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952.
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Administrative / Biographical history
Eugene von Guerard, painter and teacher, was born in November 1811 in Vienna. He studied in Dusseldorf and travelled in Germany and Italy before arriving in Victoria in 1852. He visited the Ballarat goldfields and later travelled in Victoria, N.S.W, S.A. and Tas. In 1870 he was appointed Curator of the National Gallery of Victoria and Principal of...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL PXX 15
Record Identifier
93QVMjl1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/93QVMjl1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
825478
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