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Title
Oswald W.B. Brierly : [Wanderer. Sketches of scenes and studies], 1833-1842
Creator
Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.) Brierly, 1817-1894
Call number
PX*D 71
Level of description
item
Date

1833-1842, 1849
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
421759
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
Drawings - 111 drawings (pencil - ink - watercolour) - 49 x 61.5 cm. or smaller
Scope and Content
Includes illustrations of seascapes and landscapes composed during the voyage of the Wanderer to Australia, via South America, from England.
1a. [Boat with landscape]
1b. 31 December 1833 [sailing ship]
2a. [Sailing ship in rough sea]
2b. H.M.S. Victory in a heavy sea after a gale at sea 1837
3a. See ....? [Cloud study. Watercolour]
3b. Cloud Shadows on Land. Land seen from auelu...? Low Island. 13 Jul 1840 [with notes]
4a. [Cloud study]
4b. 2.20 PM 4 Augt 1840. Lying from lee Isle Duperrey. [sailing ship]
5a. Plymo [i.e. Plymouth] Breakwater 2nd Decr. 1841 [with pencil notes]
5b. [Boats. Pencil sketch and watercolour]
6. Pyne [?] comes into Plymouth Sound
7. The Curral Decr. 24th 1841
8. Barn Pool [sea & landscapes]
9. Mewstone dist 3 miles
10. Cape Town from the Bay [with notes]
11a. East End of Teneriffe Decr. 31st 1841 [with notes]
11b. Santa Cruz bearing W 1/2 S. Land mixed up with clouds
12. The Island of Sal, at 5.15 P.M. Sunday Jany 9th [or 7th] 1842 Dis about 12 miles - Main Point bearing S 3/4 W. [with notes]
13a. The Sugar Loaf from the Feb. 4th 1842
13b. [Sailing ship]
14. Island of Tristan d'Acunha [i.e. Tristan da Cunha] Morning of the 17th March 1842
15. Tristan d'Acunha [i.e. Tristan da Cunha. Sailing ship in stormy sea]
16a. Somerset Town Tristan d Acunha [i.e. Tristan da Cunha]
16b. [Landscape with figures in foreground. Unfinished pencil sketch]
17. Tristan d'Acunha North Side of the Island [with notes]
18. Wanderer rounding the Cape Monday April 4th 1842 [with notes]
19. False Bay April 4th 1842 [with notes]
20. Primitive Australia. The Kiah Mount Imlay. May 1st 1842
21. May 11th 1842 [Dolphins in storm]
22a. Plan accepted on Board The Wanderer spare topsail set as a fore sail - May 19th 1842 [showing mast, sails, and rigging]
22b. [Mast of ship]
23. Awaiting ourselves of a fine day to dry sails - Friday May 20 1842 [with nautical position]
24a. S.W. Point of Teneriffe
24b. [Landscape with rocks in foreground]
25a. North P W & by N
25b. Off Teneriffe [sailing ships and boats]
26a. Raza Island at 2.30 [with notes]
26b. [Landscapes]
27. Lord Hood's nose on Gabia to Lee Blunt 554
28. Sugar Loaf at 12.30 bearing NW 1/2 N Dis in about 7 Leagues. Entrance of the .... / Raza Island and Ld [i.e. Lord] Hood's nose NW by W 1/2 W
29. Porto Santa Bearing SW & by S Dis 20 miles
30. St Jago
31. Cape Frii [i.e. Frio] Dis 10 miles
32. Cape Frii at b Pole [with extensive notes]
33a. Entrance to Rio
33b. From Nytheroy to the city about 5 years [sailing ships]
34a. Land Bearing N. Wed Feb 3 1841 at the entrance of Rio
34b. [Landscapes - unfinished]
35. Beam Voyage [3 landscapes with colour notes]
36. Curious Schooner in Rio Harbour
37a. Entrance to inner Harbour [with notes]
37b. [Sailing ships]
38. Decr. 26th 1849 [in pencil]. Village of Camera De Lobos - or Chamber of the Seals. District of Camera de Lobos [in pen].
39. High land of Mayo at 7.30 bore S.E. just visible
40a. Showers in Lat 25-47-S Lon 30.28-W
40b. [Sailing ship]
41. Queens Town
42. Ryde Oct 5th/[18]41 [Sailing ships]
43-44, 46. [Sailing ships. On reverse of sketches are journal entries respectively dated 13th, 14th, & 19th Oct.]
45. Lugger at anchor in the weather tide see sketch [entry for 17th Oct on reverse]
47. Wanderer in the Channel - Night of 22nd Octr. [18]41
48. Brillania - rung up channel 25th Octr. 1841 [text dated Monday 25th on reverse]
49. [Sailing ship. Journal entry for Sept. 28th on reverse]
50. Preparing to start [Journal entry for 30th Sept. on reverse]
51-52. [Sailing ships. Text on reverse]
53. Lymington[?] Creek [Journal entry for Wednesday 20th on reverse]
54. Positions of Cutters .... [Journal entry for Saturday 25th on reverse]
55. Fox mart ought to Bend for d [i.e. forward]. Wanderer at 5 PM Taking in a sea over the ....
56. Pacquita. Boat in which our horses were taken from Rio to Piedade[?] [Text on reverse]
57. [Buildings]
58a. [Cloud study]
58b. [Mountain range with colour notes. Pencil sketch]
59. [Coastal view]
60a. [Cloud study]
60b. Principle [Building beside water]
61. [Mountains with colour notes]
62. N by W 1/2 W [Landscape]
63. [View of island with colour notes]
64a. [Town view]
64b. [Man seated - unfinished sketch]
65a. [Island]
65b. VESIA [or Vesta. Rough sketch of ship]
66. [Pathway view in park]
67. 6.30 The sun settling at this moment reflecting .... [unfinished sketches of mountains and sailing ship]
68a & 69. [Landscape with notes]
68b. [Sailing ships - unfinished sketches]
70. Lat. Lon. March 8th N by E [Cloud study]
71. Took reefs out [Sailing ship]
72. [Cloud study]
73. [Island landscape with notes]
74a. [Town views]
74b. [Sailing ships]
75a-b. [Town Views with notes]
76a. Harbour [view of town and ships]
76b. Short account of trial [Sailing ships - unfinished sketch]
77a. [Landscape]
77b. Holland[?] at Gulch Knox's folly .... Have not had a death for 21 years [landscape and ship - unfinished sketches]
78. Devils Peak 3315 feet
79. [Landscape with notes]
80a. [Sketches of houses, various modes of transport, and ships]
80b. Neptunes cup from pt de Jalle (? Ceylon). Majambo Bay [rough sketches of fish, cups, and water]
81a-b. [Landscapes]
82a. [Town view]
82b-c. [Sailing ships - unfinished sketches]
General note

Many sketches are annotated with descriptive notes about nautical location, terrain, and dramatic weather conditions as well as colour details
In cases where sketches have an additional drawing on the reverse, the letters a & b (plus c & d where sheets are four-sided) have been allocated.
Many drawings have a paper label with an auction number on the reverse.
No.15 bears watermark, "Smiths & Alli / 1840"
Nos. 42-56 are composed on leaves of a notedbook (ruled pages) and have text in the form of journal entries on the reverse. This material may have been in a volume format.
Digital order no:Album ID : 824102
Signatures / Inscriptions

Some sketches are titled and dated
No.12 is signed "O.W.B."
Three sketches are signed "J.B"
Name
Wanderer (yacht)
Subject
David Scott Mitchell Collection.
Topic
clouds
coasts
mountains
peninsulars
sailing ships
seascapes (artwork)
Place
Cape Town (South Africa)
Mount Imlay (N.S.W.)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Santa Cruz Islands (Solomon Islands)
Tristan da Cunha
Exhibited in

O Rio de Janeiro na Rota Dos Mares Do Dul (Rio de Janeiro on the South Seas route) - Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janiero, Brazil (20 November, 2006 - 7 January, 2007). Applies to: ff. 27-29; 33, 33a, 34, 34a, 36-7
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