Collection of views, 1855 - 1875 / Eugene Von Guerard
Collection of views, 1855 - 1875 / Eugene Von Guerard
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1855-1875
Call Numbers
DG*D 17
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
3 vols - sizes range from 17.8 x 13.3 cm. to 35 x 58.4 cm., in boxes 63 x 39.5 cm. - 48 mounted drawings in pencil and pencil and crayon, and 2 drawings in ink
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
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
VOLUME 1
f. 1. Garibaldi Claim near Daylesford. Ap.64
f. 2. Clyde Fall near Bothwell. 27 Jany. 75
f. 3. The Sydney Heads. Monday 26 Decr. 1859
f. 4. Rose Bay. Sydney, 26 Decr. 59
f. 5. Kiama. 12 Dec. 59
f. 6. Wollongong. 3rd Dec. 59
f. 7. Stoneleigh 21 May 66
f. 8. Blackheath Creek. View in the Cox River Valley. 18 & 20 Dec....
Alternative Titles
Full title
Collection of views, 1855 - 1875 / Eugene Von Guerard
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Copy Print : DG*D 17
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
Digital order no:Album ID : 865418
Signature / Inscriptions
All drawings are dated and titled; f. 33 is signed. Some drawings have notes (in German).
Attributions / Conjectures
DG*D 17 ff. 11-12 should be Yalla-y-Poora and f. 11 is the study for a painting held in the National Gallery of Victoria
Reference:
Information supplied by Edward Coleridge, May 2009
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Sir William Dixson, 1951.
Exhibited in
- Gold ! - the goldrush days in Australia, from the earliest discoveries to the 1930's
- Line of Sight: 19th century Australian landscape paintings
- Eugene von Guerard: Sydney Heads 1865: Australian Collection Focus
- Illawarra : The Garden of New South Wales
- Illawarra and Environs: a pictorial survey
- Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed
- Picturing the Great Divide
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
DG*D 17
Record Identifier
nM7ldyXY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nM7ldyXY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
825457
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