Collection of original drawings / Samuel Elyard and Walter Raleigh Elyard

PXE 1057

fonds

approximately 1840-approximately 1870

Graphic Materials, Drawings

52907

1 folder (9 drawings) - pencil, wash - 34.0 x 53.5 cm (folder)

Samuel Elyard (1817-1910), public servant and landscape painter. Elyard studied under Conrad Martens and John Skinner Prout, specialising in landscape painting in watercolours and oils. He exhibited in Sydney in 1847 and 1857 and in Paris in 1867. Walter Raleigh Elyard was a nephew of Samuel Elyard.

Reference: Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4, 1851-1890 / Douglas Pike. Carlton : Melbourne University Press, 1972.

This collection includes 6 pencil drawings by Samuel Elyard and 1 wash drawing of yachts signed by W. R. Elyard, 31st July 1868:

1. Bird
2. Mule
3. Ship unloading cargo on dock
4. Ship tied up at dock
5. Portait of a gentleman reading
6. Yacht race
7. Townscape by the sea or river

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

6. Bears a pencil comment by Samuel Elyard.

Title designated by cataloguer.

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.868 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012

Related pictorial material by Samuel Elyard located at PX*D 61

6. Signed 'W. R. Elyard'