William Strutt - a collection of drawings in watercolour, ink and pencil [...] illustrating the Burk...
William Strutt - a collection of drawings in watercolour, ink and pencil [...] illustrating the Burk...
William Strutt - a collection of drawings in watercolour, ink and pencil [...] illustrating the Burke and Wills exploring expedition crossing the continent of Australia from Cooper's Creek to Carpentaria Aug 1860-June 1861. 1st Series [and] 2nd Series, 1846-61
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1846-61
Call Numbers
DL PXX 3 , DL PXX 4
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Reference Code
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Physical Description
Contents
2 albums (comprising 3 miniatures, 135 pencil, wash and watercolour drawings, 1 oil, 25 photographs, 4 newscuttings, and 4 pages of holograph notes) - Various sizes - largest 38.8 x 26.9 cm., smallest 2.8 x 1.7 cm.
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The albums contain photographs and sketches pasted on their leaves, with captions in Strutt's handwriting pasted below many of the items. Inside the front cover of DL PXX 3 are three oval windows with tooled leather borders, in which are inset miniatures painted from the photographs and portrait sketch at ff.2a-c. A monogram of the subject is embos...
Alternative Titles
Full title
William Strutt - a collection of drawings in watercolour, ink and pencil [...] illustrating the Burke and Wills exploring expedition crossing the continent of Australia from Cooper's Creek to Carpentaria Aug 1860-June 1861. 1st Series [and] 2nd Series, 1846-61
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 823649...
Signature / Inscriptions
"From a water colour study by poor Ludwig Becker in his series of charming little miniature drawings he did at Menindie & sent to the Royal Society Committee Melbourne / cracked mud plains - warm - sunlit - brilliant" -- on reverse of DL PXX 4 f.12f
"Esau Lau, an East Indian camel driver, Burke's Expedition" -- inscribed at lower right, DL PXX 4...
Contextual Information
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Sir William Dixson Library
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Administrative / Biographical history
Trained as an artist in England and France, William Strutt has been described as the finest figure painter in Victoria during his residence there between 1850 and 1862. Strutt aspired to record important events in the colony in the genre of history painting, and took a keen interest in the Victorian Exploring Expedition led by Burke and Wills in 18...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL PXX 3 , DL PXX 4
Record Identifier
nZNvEaQn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNvEaQn
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Reference code
447251
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