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Title
Volume 01: Sketchbook XXII. No. 4 Australian. Australia, Apr. 1854-Dec. 1857, 1858 / by Eugene von Guerard
Call number
DGB 16/vol. 1
Level of description
item
Date

1854-1858
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
824690
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 sketchbook - 102 drawings in pencil, pen, and ink and wash - 5 col. Drawings on both sides of the paper ; 11 x 15.5 cm.
Scope and Content
Areas & subjects: Geelong, Chinese in Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne social life, Botany, Zoology, Dandenongs, Barwon River, Merri Creek, Brighton, Aboriginal implements

[114?] leaves numbered by von Guerard, in some instances each sketch is numbered rather than each leaf.

f. 1. Oberhalb Lewins farm am Barwon by Geelong (col.) – 24 Apr. 54
f. 2. Oberhalb Geelong Lac Koneware (col.) – 24 Apr. 54
f. 3. Chinesisches Melb. – Mai 54
f. 4. Sandridge n. St Kilda (2) Sontag – 14 Mai 54
f. 5. [5 heads]
f. 6. [2 figures] Melbourne – Mai 54
f. 7. Melbourne gentleman (in rain)
f. 8. Grass tree
f. 9. Richmond Police Paddock
f. 10. [Cactus] Melbourne – 13 Oct. 54
f. 11. [Plant] Melbourne
f. 12. Botanical Gdn Melbourne – 15 Oct. 54
f. 13. Princes Bridge v. Police Paddock
f. 14.and f. 15. [Large tree] – 21 Oct. 54
f. 16. Tarra – 21 Oct. 54
f. 17. New Holland Lily
f. 18 Gummtree – 29 Oct. 54
f. 19. Gov’t Reserve Melbourne – 12 Nov. 54
f. 20. Bot. Gdn. – 12 Nov. 54
f. 21. Jon Bishops House Carleton Gardens Melbourne. Kangaroo – 15 Nov. 54
f. 22. [Kangaroo]
f. 23. [3 kangaroos]
f. 24. [4 kangaroos]
f. 25. Birds in a tree
f. 26. Melbourne – 29 Nov. 54
f. 27. Wagon train Melbourne – Mai 56
f. 28. Tannar S. Melbourne – 55
f. 29. Yarra Yarra Richmond – 15 Jan. 55
f 30. Melbourne S. Yarra
f. 31. Saltwater Lagun near Melbourne Mt Macedon – 4 Feb. 55
f. 32. Station Peak from Melbourne – 15 Feb. 55
f. 33. (horizon near Flemmington)
f. 33 rev. Dandenong 2 m. from Mounten Station – 19 Feb.
f. 35. Glen fern oder Mounten Station von Dandenong Ranges – 18 Feb. 55
f. 36. Mounten Station– 18 Feb. 55
f. 37. …[?] Dickinson’s Hutte – 19-20 Feb. 55
f. 38. Fern trees Dandenong Ranges– 20 Feb. 55
f. 39. Dandenong Ranges – 20 Feb. 55
f. 40. Dandenong Ranges – 20 Feb. 55
f. 41. Dandenong Ranges (col.) – 20 Feb. 55
f. 42. Dandenong Creek (trees) – 20 Feb. 55
f. 43. Gerry & Gomm [trees] – 20 Feb. 55
[bird house in tree] Mr Perrys farm Melb. Bot Garden
f. 44. St Kilda [beach and sailboats] – 4 Marz 55

f. 45. sheoack – 13 Marz 55
f. 46. Barwon Falls – 13 Marz 55
f. 47. Barwon [rock)]
f. 48. Barwon 4 miles fr Geelong
f. 49. Barwon – 13 Marz 55
f. 50. Moorabul [i.e. Moorabool] … Ballarat 4 m. f. Geelong
no f. 51
f. 52. River Yarra [tree stump] – Marz 55
f. 53. Heidelburg [i.e. Heidelberg] oder/ober Yarra (woods) – 12 Ap 55
f. 54. Heidelburg [i.e. Heidelberg] Yarra –13 Ap 55
f. 55. Ober Heidelberg Dandenong Ranges
f. 56. Brucke uberr Merri Creek – 12 Ap 55
f. 57. Am Strande St Kilda & Brighton – 18 Ap 55
f. 58. S. Kilda – 18 Ap 55
f. 59. Merri Creek – 20 Ap 55
f. 60. Merri Creek Yarra – 20 Ap 55 (col.)
f. 61. 2 emus – 26 Ap 55
f. 62. 2 emus reclining – 26 Ap 55
f. 63. Stryngoback [Stringybark?] Toorak – 19 Aug 55
f. 64. [woods]
f. 65. Paddock Melbourne – Oct 55
f. 66. Simpson Point Collingwood
f. 67. [Aboriginal Shield & spear] Seidls farm
f. 68. [bull with yoke] Melbourne –
f. 69. [5 bulls / oxen]
f. 70. Barabool Hill
f. 71. [2 oxen] – 18 Jan 56
f. 72. [ox cart]
f. 73. [oxen]
f. 74 Melb [cloud study] – 4 Feb 56
f. 75. [ox]
f. 76. [bull]
f. 77. Yarra bot. garten – 24 Feb 56
f. 78. Mount Jourany [?] or Station Peak James Walace [sic] Eureka Hotel, Ballarat Rd
Ferntree Corduroy Hotel Ballarat Rd – 29 Feb 56
verso Station Peak – 2 Marz 56
f. 79. Boninyong Hill – 28 Feb 56
f. 80. Moorabol Tha – 29 Feb 56
f. 81. Moorabol Valley – 29 Feb 56
f. 82. Moorabol Fall – 29 Feb 56
f. 83. Mr Iveson Corduroy Bridge Hotel near Ballarat – 1 Marz 56
f. 84. Beurteams farm – 2 Marz 56
f. 85. (man huddled inside cave mouth) Station Peak
f. 86. Station Peak – 2 Marz 56
f. 87. Yarra Yarra – 19 Marz 56
f. 88. (dead tree) – 25 Dec 56
f. 89. near Ogleigh [?Oakleigh] – 25 Dec 56
f. 90. Stringy bark, Gap Hills Dandenong – 23 Jan 57
f. 91. Gap Hill near the Dandenong Cr.
f. 92. Gap Hill [?] Farm Darling R. (New Berlin) – 24 Jan 57
f. 93. Dandenong Ranges
f. 94. Fern 50-60 T. nach – 25 Jan 57
f. 95. Dobson hutte Dandenong – 26 Jan 57
f. 96. Dandenong Ranges – 26 Jan 57
f. 97. Tea scrub D. creek – 27 Jan 57
f. 98. Techanis [?] – 27 Jan 57
f. 99. Techanis [?] – 28 Jan 57
f. 100. Techanis resin [?] – 29 Jan 57
f. 101. 4 Dec 58
f. 102. Yarra Collingwood [bridge] – 58
f. 103-108 [blank]
f. 109. man in blue [Chinese] [col.] – 13 Oct 54

3 pages of notes
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Contents list transcribed in 2008 from listing compiled by Edward Comstock, 1970 (PXn 571)
General note

Microfilm available at CY 608B
Digital order no:Album ID : 908613
Subject
Chinese--Australia.
Topic
mountains
trees
landscapes (artwork)
Chinese peoples
Place
Victoria
Geelong Region (Vic.)
Melbourne (Vic.)
Dandenong Ranges (Vic.)
Exhibited in

Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed - Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (16 April - 7 August, 2011)
Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens - State Library of New South Wales (September 2016 - January 2017). Applies to: vol. 1