Item 08: Sketches 1863-1866, 1870, 1877 / Eugene Von Guerard
Item 08: Sketches 1863-1866, 1870, 1877 / Eugene Von Guerard
About this item
Full title
Date
1864-1877
Call Numbers
DL PXX 17
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 album - sizes range from 23.5 x 30 cm. to 31.5 x 58.5 cm. in album 43 x 64 cm. - 17 drawings in pencil (11), and pencil and crayon (6), mounted on alternate leaves
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Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
17 drawings in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering) titled Von Guerard / Sketches
[i.] Fortes Fortuna Junvat, Sir William Dixson [bookplate on front cover verso. ]
f. 1. Deep Creek Homestead [Glenara homestead, near Bulla, Vic.]
f. 2. [Unidentified bush scene]
f. 3. Beleura
f. 4. Beleura...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 08: Sketches 1863-1866, 1870, 1877 / Eugene Von Guerard
Notes
General note
ff.1-2, and f. 15 comprise irregular multiple sheets pasted together; f.1 and f. 15 are folded.
"Bound by Wallis" -- printed on reverse of marbled end paper
Copy print available: DL PXX 17
Signature / Inscriptions
13 drawings are dated, and 16 are titled (1 in the hand of Sir William Dixson); all are unsigned. Some drawings have notes (in German).
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 17
Record Identifier
9yM6Rvx9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9yM6Rvx9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
825485
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