Volume 05: Sketchbook XXVI, No. 8 Australian. Australia. Mar-Apr, 1857, Sep-Oct, 1859 / by Eugene vo...
Volume 05: Sketchbook XXVI, No. 8 Australian. Australia. Mar-Apr, 1857, Sep-Oct, 1859 / by Eugene vo...
Volume 05: Sketchbook XXVI, No. 8 Australian. Australia. Mar-Apr, 1857, Sep-Oct, 1859 / by Eugene von Guerard
About this item
Full title
Date
1857, 1859
Call Numbers
DGB 16/vol. 5
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Drawings and Watercolours
Physical Description
Contents
1 sketchbook - various sizes in sketchbook 10.4 x 15.6 cm - 91 leaves, ca. 85 drawings: pencil, pen and ink, and wash, some watercolours: drawn on both sides of the paper
Other Descriptions
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
Areas & subjects: Mount Elephant, Mount Shadwell, Apollo Bay, Lakes Corangamite & Colac, Cape Otway, Barwon
91 leaves numbering by von Guerard (irregular)
f. 1. sketch of small boats 57
f. 2. small line drawing Mount Gellibrand –
Mt Hesse & Mt Gellibrand [watercolour]
f. 3. Wardy Jellal River - Woady Yallock Creek at the F...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Volume 05: Sketchbook XXVI, No. 8 Australian. Australia. Mar-Apr, 1857, Sep-Oct, 1859 / by Eugene von Guerard
Notes
General note
Microfilm available at CY 612
Digital order no:Album ID : 879160
Signature / Inscriptions
In German. Drawings are chiefly titled and dated; some have further descriptive notes. Inside cover of sketchbook is inscribed Eugene de Guérard
1857 & 59 Western Plains Cape Otway and pencil list of place names. Most of the book is irregularly numbered by von Guerard.
Description source
Contents list transcribed in 2008 from listing compiled by Edward Comstock, 1970 (PXn 571)
Published information
Ruth Pullin ‘Eugene von Guérard: a journey through Victoria’s Western Plains’, in Lisa Byrne, Harriet Edquist, Laurene Vaughan, (eds), Designing Place: An Archeology of the Western District , Melbourne: RMIT University, Melbourne Books, 2010, pp. 112-125 makes references to Volume 05: Sketchbook XXVI, No. 8 Australian. Australia. Mar-Apr, 1857, Sep...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Clune Galleries, July 1970
Exhibited in
- Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed
Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (16 April - 7 August, 2011)
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DGB 16/vol. 5
Record Identifier
YzOgAWd9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOgAWd9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
824697
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