• Title
  Sketches in the Station Wyong N.S.W. 1884 / album of pencil drawings by John Stirling
• Creator
  John Stirling, active 1884
• Call number
  PXA 846
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1884
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  403257
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 sketchbook of 17 sheets and 1 inside front endpaper - binding broken ; 27.3 x 38 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  The drawings include:
  1. The Happy Family [portraits of Stirling, Will Cross & Willie Alison]
  3. Running up the Horses [mustering horses]
  5. The first day of the "Merry Duchess" [breaking-in a horse in stable-yards]
  7. First mount on Her Grace / Quiet at last [breaking-in a horse]
  9. Ruby ... The Merry Duchess ... Dandy ... Ouida / [horse portraits]
  11. A nasty fall through wire "Satan" gets badly hurt / dated "July 14th 84"
  13. [Four vignette drawings of Wyong interiors, including Stirling and Will Cross by the fire place]
  15. The Township on Saturdays / [two men driving a carriage]
  17. Fetching our rations / [vignettes of a trap piled with rations and Blue Gum Flat township, drawing dated "June 20th /84"]
  19. [Man chopping fallen tree / two men with rifles]
  20. "Smoko" The Merry family at Wyong Cattle Station Australia / [portraits of Fred Autle?, J. Stirling, Wm Cross & Wm Alison]
  21. [two men riding through rain storm]
  23. The Merry Duchess Wyong / [horse portrait dated "Aug. 12th /84"]
  25. Overlanding the Cattle / [vignettes of experiences of overlanders]
  26. [Two men having a pipe, next to a tent]
  27. Polosi Cristy Minstrels May 12th /85
  31. Aden
  33. Sydney Joys / [drawings of women]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  This album appears to have been compiled by John Stirling whilst working at Wyong in 1884, a property which gave its name to the present Central Coast town. The property was established by William Alison who is depicted by Stirling in the album.
  Stirling's drawings are principally interested in horses, and his involvement with them at Wyong Station. He shows breaking-in horses, mustering, riding to town in a carriage and collecting supplies in a buggy. He also depicts the interiors of domestic buildings at Wyong. The drawings celebrate the rigours of a manly bush lifestyle.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823779
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Album signed, twice at top right, "Jno Stirling" and titled on inside front endpaper
  On album cover is written in block capitals "Sketch Book"
  Most of the drawings are titled, and four are dated
• Name
  Alison, William
  
• Topic
  buggies
  horsedrawn carriages
  farm workers
  horse-breaking
  horseriders
  horses
  pioneer bush life
  pipes (smoking)
  
• Place
  Wyong (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Equinity - State Library of New South Wales (15 October - 10 December, 2007). Applies to: f.11
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1100728

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