Item 03: The Glenelg and Mt Gambier, 1857 / Eugene Von Guerard
Item 03: The Glenelg and Mt Gambier, 1857 / Eugene Von Guerard
About this item
Full title
Date
1857
Call Numbers
DL PXX 14
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 album - sizes range from 26 x 50 cm. to 28 x 40 cm. in album 33 x 55.5 cm. - 9 drawings in pencil, pen, ink, pencil and ink, and ink and wash
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Item
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1 pencil, 1 ink, 2 pencil and ink, 2 pencil, ink and wash, 3 ink and wash drawings in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering) titled Von Guerard / The Glenelg and Mount Gambier
[i.] Fortes Fortuna Junvat, William Dixson [bookplate on front cover verso]
f. 1. ... Glenelg & Mt. Gambier, No. 10, 1857 ....
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 03: The Glenelg and Mt Gambier, 1857 / Eugene Von Guerard
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 936680...
Signature / Inscriptions
Four of the drawings are signed, eight are dated and eight are titled. Titles are also in Sir William Dixson’s [?] hand, on mount at lower right.
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952.
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 14
Record Identifier
9WZMw7aY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9WZMw7aY
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Reference code
825474
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