Volume 12: Sketchbook XXXIII, No. 15 Australian. 1862 / by Eugene von Guerard
Volume 12: Sketchbook XXXIII, No. 15 Australian. 1862 / by Eugene von Guerard
Volume 12: Sketchbook XXXIII, No. 15 Australian. 1862 / by Eugene von Guerard
About this item
Full title
Date
1862
Call Numbers
DGB 16/vol. 12
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 sketchbook - various sizes, in album 9.5 x 16 cm. - 72 leaves: drawings in pencil (1 col.), pen and ink, and wash, on both sides of the paper
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Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge : Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wale
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Areas & subjects: Cape Otway, Benalla, Sketches of Professor Neumayer, Albury, Mitta Mitta, Snowy Mountains during expedition to Kosciuszko with Neumayer
72 leaves, 1-22 numbered by von Guerard, remainder renumbered by Mitchell Library
f. 1. Loutit Bay
f. 2. [trees] 14 Ap 62
f. 3. [bush] 15 Ap 62
f. 4. Cape Otway (sea + ro...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Volume 12: Sketchbook XXXIII, No. 15 Australian. 1862 / by Eugene von Guerard
Notes
General note
Most drawings cover 2 pages of notebook.
Microfilm available at CY 619.
Digital order no:Album ID : 921428
Signature / Inscriptions
In German. Drawings are chiefly titled and dated; some have further descriptive notes. Inscribed in ink inside front cover: 1862 Cape Otway Tour mit Neumeyer - Mt Kosciusko.
Description source
Contents list transcribed in 2008 from listing compiled by Edward Comstock, 1970 (PXn 571)
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Clune Galleries, July 1970.
Exhibited in
- Sweet damper and gossip: colonial sightings from the Goulburn and North-East
- Eugen von Guerard
- Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed
Benalla Art Gallery (17 December, 1993 - 12 June, 1994)
Australian National Gallery
Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (April, 2011 - August, 2011)
Administrative / Biographical history
Von Guerard accompanied Professor Georg Neumayer to Mount Kosciusko in 1862 on a survey expedition for the Victorian colonial government. This is one of 2 sketchbooks used on that occasion.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DGB 16/vol. 12
Record Identifier
nX6OpAEY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nX6OpAEY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
825419
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