• Title
  Series 02: Gerard Krefft album of watercolour drawings, ca. 1857-1858, 1861, 1866
• Creator
  Gerard Krefft, 1830-1881
• Call number
  PXD 9
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1857-1858, 1861, 1866
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  63890
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  35 watercolours - 49 x 37 cm. or smaller
  1 drawing - pencil
  
• Scope and Content
  An album, measuring 51.5 x 41.5 x 5.5 cm. (Library binding), containing 35 watercolours and 1 pencil drawing.
  
  1. Dasyurus Viverrinus [Eastern Quolls. Titled from catalogue, "Pair of native cats"]
  2. [Pair of Native Cats of different colours]. Inscription on reverse of mount, "pouched animals or marsupial .... 5th tribe the Dasyures or native cats, the flesh eaters among the .... animals. Example the common Dasyures found in Eastern Australia and Tasmania""
  3a. Wombat from the Zoological Gardens Adelaide
  3b. [Head of a wombat]
  4. [Wombat]
  5. Hapalotis Arboricola (Macleay) [Type of hopping mouse or rabbit-rat. Arbricola = plant] / G. Krefft, 1861
  6. Hydromys lutrilla (Macleay) [ie. water rat] found swimming and diving among the rocks at Elizabeth Bay in Sydney / G. Krefft, 1861
  7. [Native rat, possibly brush-tailed rabbit-rat] / G. Krefft, 1858
  8. ... Hapalotis apicalis. White tipd. Hapalotis [lesser stick-nest rat]. Tillikin N.N. from Mundellemin Lower Murray / G. Krefft
  9. [Native tree rats]
  10. Phascogale penicillata [Brush-tailed marsupial mouse] / G. Krefft
  11. [Pair of Kangaroos]
  12. B. "Jimmy Bigfoot" Australian Native carrying a Kangaroo to his camp
  13. Sergeant Gunbower Creek [Head of an Aboriginal] / G. Krefft, 1857
  14. [Head of an Aboriginal. Front seated profile]
  15. [Female Aboriginal cleaning fish] / G. Krefft
  16. [Three Aboriginal Girls]
  17. [Aboriginal man making a weapon]
  18. [Aboriginal chasing kangaroo. Hunting scene involving Aboriginal man, 3 native dogs, and rock wallaby] / G. Krefft, 1857
  19. Natives ... [crossing the Murray in a bark canoe]
  20. [Corroboree]
  21. [Hunting scene]
  22. Native graves. Hamilton.. Station Murrumbidgee / G. Krefft, 1857
  23. [Native grave or dwelling]
  24. [Bush scene]
  25. [Station on the Murray]
  26. [Aboriginal grave]
  27. Sandstone cliffs on the Murray ... ar Mondellemin / G. Krefft, 1857
  28. [Homestead with 2 men on horses and cliffs in the background]
  29. Gall Gall Station the property of Mess. J.H. Williams Lower Murray / G. Krefft, 1857
  30. Bend of the Murray River
  31. [Scene on the Murray. Men hunting kangaroos with guns] / G. Krefft, 1857
  32. [Bush scene on the Murray] / G.K., 1866
  33. [Study of 8 beetles]
  34. [Study of 6 insects]
  35. [Kangaroo in profile] / G. Krefft
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The drawings were originally single works that were offered for sale after Krefft's death. A catalogue titled, "List of water colour drawings from nature of objects of natural history by Gerard Krefft" accompanies this volume. The drawings have been ordered according to this list however, the Mitchell library's set varies slightly missing catalogue No. 8 Rat; No. 18 Aboriginal's hand holding fork; and 6 sheets of drawings of beetles. The order of Nos. 8 & 9 is reversed from the catalogue.
  Nos. 3b & 4 are additional drawings not stipulated in the catalogue.
  No. 3b is a pencil drawing on reverse of mount 3a.
  No. 7 is composed of watercolour drawing and pasted on image.
  The drawings bare evidence of repairs undertaken at an unknown date. The borders of No. 8 have been trimmed omitting part of Krefft's signature.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823990
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some drawings are titled and signed in the lower right. Few drawings are dated
  Many inscription are difficult to decipher and are faded
  Spine has embossed title, "Sketches of Australian Aborigines"
• Subject
  Animals--Australia--Pictorial works.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Kangaroos--Pictorial works.
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  burial grounds
  homesteads
  hunting
  natural history illustrations
  quolls
  
• Place
  Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Krefft Blandowski - Mildura Arts Centre. Applies to: Nos. 1,8,13-15,19,27,29
  Living Language: Country, Culture, Community - State Library of New South Wales (July 2019 - November 2019). Applies to: PXD 9/Item 35

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