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Title
Views in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania, 1853 / John W. Hardwick
Creator
John William Hardwick, 1826-1891
Call number
PXA 6925
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca.1853
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
446719
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : nos. 11, 15, 15a, 17, 22, 23, 34, 47, 53
Physical Description
Drawings - 66 pencil, ink, & watercolour drawings - various
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

John William Hardwick, 1826-1891, sketcher and storekeeper, migrated from Leeds, Yorkshire, arriving Melbourne 12 November 1852. Two weeks later he sailed to Tasmania returning to Melbourne May 1853. In June 1853 he moved to Sydney staying at Paddington with John Stamper. By July 1856 he was working as a storekeeper in Rylstone, N.S.W. until his death in 1891. -- The Dictionary of Australian Artists / edited by Joan Kerr
Scope and Content
1(a-d). Sydney and environs, etc. shewing particularly the waters of Port Jackson. [map in 4 sections]
"A Cowan & Sons / 1852 / Patent" -- watermark on no.1(a,c,d)
"E. Towgood / 1853" -- watermark on no.1(b)
2. Sydney 1853 [printed map with handwritten annotations]
3. The mendicant Blackfellow of Rose Bay, Sydney. [watercolour]
4. Korio Bay & the Youyang Mountains, from Victoria Terrace, Geelong, looking North. / JWH June 1853. [pencil sketch]
5. Korio Bay & Geelong Harbour - from the Cliffs near Victoria Terrace. JWH June 1853. [pencil sketch]
6. Flemington - the first village on the Road to the Diggings / Two miles from Melbourne. JWH. June 1853. Water badly put in - one of the first. [pencil]
7. Windmill : Waverley - near Sydney. [watercolour]
8. Part of Woolloomooloo Bay & the Domain - Government House in distance. Farm Cove & shipping lying between. [Watercolour with pencil inscription on verso]
9. "Sir Jos. Banks" Hotel, Botany Bay - NSW. [Watercolour with pencil inscription on verso]
10. View of Dawes Pt & the Battery from near Macquarie Fort - this side of Sydney Cove - Adelaide Str in distance. Port Jackson is never so rough. JWH 1853. [watercolour]
11. Panorama of Paddington. [Watercolour with pencil annotations along lower edge]
12. Double Bay - Waverley in distance. [watercolour]
13. "South Head" Lighthouse. NSW. [Watercolour with pencil inscription on verso] JWH 1853 [signed and dated on verso]
14. View of Paddington from my bedroom window. JWH 1853 [pencil with additional manuscript annotations on drawing]
15. [Untitled view showing Cooper's residence with pencil annotations along lower edge]
15a. Ormonde House, Paddington. Residence of Robert Cooper Esq. / (now occupied as an asylum for destitute children). [Ink with further pencil annotations along lower edge]
16. Double Bay, from the Cliffs below the Church Promontary [sic] ... JWH 1853. [pencil]
17. Church & Villa near Double Bay, NSW. Road along summit of Darling Point, a promontory [sic] dividing Rushcutters Bay from Double Bay. [Pencil with further annotations on verso and along top edge]
18. View from the Flagstaff, Sydney ... JWH 1853. [pencil]
19. A study. You pass these rocks. short cut to Rushcutter. Quarry in Paddington Wood. 1853. [pencil]
20. Government House & Macquarie Fort - from the Botanical Gardens - Sydney - N.S.W. ... JWH 1853. [pencil]
21. Rushcutter Bay & the Waters of Port Jackson from Mr Stamper's Backdoor JWH 1853. [pencil with pencil inscription along lower edge]
22. Paddington from the neighbourhood of the Church, Darling Point [pencil with additional pencil annotations]
23. Balmaine [sic] - New South Wales. (Waterview Bay) JWH 1853 [pencil]
24. ... Lower Waverley ... [ink with unfinished sketch of house on verso]
25. North & South Heads Sydney NSW, from the Cliffs near the Lighthouse [pencil]
26. Residence of R W Robinson Esq. Glebe, Sydney. [pencil]
27. Entrance to E. Maitland by the Morpeth Road. NSW. [watercolour]
28. Suspension Bridge, Maitland. [pen & wash]
29. Mouth of the Hunter River - from the Cliffs above Newcastle. NSW [pencil with pencil notations along lower edge]]
30. Breakwater - Newcastle, N.S.W. from the Flagstaff Hill. [pen & wash]
31. W. Maitland, and the Hunter River. [pen & wash]
32. Panorama of Newcastle, NSW from the Telegraph Hill. [pencil with annotations on drawing]
33. Sydney and Port Jackson - from Point Piper - Rose Bay. [pen & wash, with pencil annotations along top edge]
34. Lower Paddington, from Darlinghurst Windmill. JWH 1853 ... [pen & wash]
35. Colony at the South Head, Sydney. NSW. [Pen & wash with pencil annotations along lower edge]
36. P Jackson & Sydney, fm Rushcutter. [pen & wash with pencil annotations along upper and lower edges]
37. Paddington Church, Sydney. NSW. [pen & wash, with pencil annotations along lower edge]
38. Sydney, NSW, from the North Shore. [pen & wash, on verso in pencil:] Juniper Hall between Paddington & Darlinghurst Mills. JWH 1853
39. Government House, NSW: from Fort Macquarie ... JWH 1853. [pen & wash]
40. Balmaine [sic] Church, NSW: Catholic Chapel Balmain. JWH 1853. [pen & wash with unfinished sketch of Government House on verso]
41. Sydney from Vaucluse [sic]. Sketched by John Stamper R.A Drawn by J W Hardwick [pen & wash with additional annotations along lower edge]
42. Quarry - Paddington Wood NSW. [Watercolour with pencil inscription on verso]
43. James Town. From Longwood Road. [pencil]
44-45. [Untitled views of Westbury, buildings identified on drawings. Watercolour]
46. Panorama of Westbury. [pencil, buildings identified]]
47. Birdseye view of Launceston from the Cataract Hill - a precipitous Eminence wh. overhangs the town. The great "Eastern Tiers" peeping above the horizon. [pencil, with further notations along lower edge]
48. View of Launceston from the Sandhills - Westbury Road in the foreground. [pencil]
49. Episcopal Church Westbury. JWH Del. [pencil]
50. Wesleyan Chapel - Westbury. V.D. Land. [pencil]
51. Robinson's Inn Westbury [pencil]
52. Qalmby's Bluff, Dean's Sugar Loaf, Mr. Field's Residence & Western Tiers. [pencil]
53. The Cataract Mill Road to Punt, Launceston. [pencil]
54. Launceston from Catt. Hill top. [pencil]
55. Launceston Harbour - from the Punt. JWH Del. [pencil]
56. Cataract Basin. [pencil]
57. Steadmarsh / Dry's Bluff ... Qalmby. [pencil]
58. Woodland Scene Neighbourhood of Launceston VDL. Hobart Town Road in the distance. [pencil]
59. Farm belonging to Mr Dry member for Launceston VD. Here his father once resided. Paterson's Plains. [pencil]
60. Barracks Gates, Cataract Entrance in the Distance. Launceston VDL. [pencil]
61. Constantia Cottage near Cape Town. [pencil
62. The Briars. First Residence of Bonapart at St.H. [pencil]
63. St. Helena From the Sea. Dont [sic] laugh at the clouds. [pencil]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Related Manuscript material filed at MLMSS 448. In particular note pages 187-196: letter dated `Paddington 22 Feb 1854' to `Mr. J.W. Oxley, Leeds' from `John W. Hardwick' which discusses the sketches.

No.28 exhibited at S.H. Ervin Gallery, Jan. 6 - March 20 1983.
No.4 exhibited 1986
Digital order no:Album ID : 823480
Signatures / Inscriptions

JWH 1853 -- 12 signed and dated in pencil
Subject
Adult Males
Adult Females
children
Topic
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
bridges
horsedrawn carts
churches
emus
flagpoles
fortifications
harbours
horses
hotels & taverns
houses
lighthouses
maps
official residences
paddle steamers
quarries
rowing boats
sailing ships
seawalls
street scenes
streetscapes
suburbs
towns
windmills
Place
Balmain (N.S.W.)
Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
Corio Bay (Vic.)
Dawes Point (N.S.W.)
Double Bay (N.S.W.)
East Maitland (N.S.W.)
Farm Cove (N.S.W.)
Flemington (Vic.)
Geelong (Vic.)
Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Launceston (Tas.)
Macquarie Lighthouse (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Maitland (N.S.W.)
Newcastle (N.S.W.)
Paddington (N.S.W.)
Rushcutters Bay (N.S.W.)
St. Helena
Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
Sydney Heads (N.S.W.)
Sydney (N.S.W.)
Waverley (N.S.W.)
West Maitland (N.S.W.)
Westbury (Tas.)
Woolloomooloo Bay (N.S.W.)
Exhibited in

The Artist and the patron - Art Gallery of New South Wales (2 February - 1 May, 1988). Applies to: no.18
Celebrating early Sydney - S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery (October 1983 - November 1983). Applies to: nos. 11,18
Looking East - S.H. Ervin Gallery (October 1984 - November 1984). Applies to: nos.11,15,15a,16,17.34.35
The most useful Art: Architecture in Australia, 1788-1985 - State Library of New South Wales (August 1985 - March 1986). Applies to: nos. 23-24