Oswald W.B. Brierly - Voyage on H.M.S. Rattlesnake, ca. 1847-1853

series

ca. 1847-1853

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Prints, Textual Records

423736

Albums - 3 sketchbooks
Drawings - ca. 445 drawings (pencil - ink - watercolour)
Prints - 1 chromolithograph
Textual Records - manuscript, 10 volumes

The 1846-1850 expedition of the Royal Navy frigate, H.M.S. Rattlesnake, surveyed the Great Barrier Reef, the Louisiade Archipelago, Torres Strait, and New Guinea coast. Brierly joined the expedition in 1848. Onboard was Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), assistant surgeon, and zoologist John Macgillivray (1821-1867). The exploration party suffered severe casualties including the death of the ship's Commander, Owen Stanley, in 1850. -- Reference: The Dictionary of Australian Artists / Joan Kerr (Ed.) Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992

H.M.S. Rattlesnake in a storm, 1844 / watercolour by Oswald W. Brierly
Oswald W.B. Brierly - H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Notes [from Port Jackson northwards towards Cape York], 13 Jan. 1847 - 5 Oct. 1848
Oswald W.B. Brierly - H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Torres Straits, New Guinea, Louisiades &c., Apr. - Sep. 1848
Oswald W.B. Brierly - H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Notes on Cape York and Port Essington, 5 Oct. 1848 - Oct. 1849
Oswald W.B. Brierly - H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Notes on Port Essington, ca. 1848
Oswald W.B. Brierly - Notes on Port Essington, ca. 1848-1849
Oswald W.B. Brierly - H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Torres Straits, New Guinea, Louisiades &c., 8 May - 8 Aug. 1849
Oswald W.B. Brierly - Journal on H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Torres Straits, New Guinea &c. &c., mainly Aug. - Sep. 1849
Oswald W.B. Brierly - H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Torres Straits, New Guinea, Louisiades &c., 18 Sep. - 20 Nov. 1849
Oswald W.B. Brierly - Journal onboard H.M.S. Rattlesnake, mainly Oct. - Nov. 1849
Oswald W.B. Brierly - H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Torres Straits, New Guinea, Louisiades &c., 20 Nov. 1849 - 31 Jan. 1850
[Oswald W.B. Brierly : H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Passage to England, 1849-1853]
Sketches on board the H.M.S. Rattlesnake made during the coastal survey of the passage between the Great Barrier Reef and the east coast of Australia, ca. 1848 / Oswald W. B. Brierly
Islands, Torres Straits, 1848 / sketches by O.W. Brierly
[Oswald W.B. Brierly : studies for Kai Marrina, 1848]
H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Sketches - Cape York, New Guinea, Torres Straits, Louisiades, Sep. to Dec. 1849
[Oswald W.B. Brierly : sketches in the Louisiade Archipelago during the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 1849]
[Oswald W.B. Brierly : New Guinea coast and Cape York area during the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, ca. 1849-1850]
The Louisiade, 1849 / by O.W. Brierly
[Pinnance and boat firing on native canoes with figure studies, ca. 1849]
[H.M.S. Rattlesnake and Bramble ... ], 1852 / by Oswald W. Brierly

This collection comprises 21 manuscript and pictorial record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record. In chronological order with subject series

Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
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Bound by Mitchell Library, September 1944