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Title
[Oswald W.B. Brierly : sketches in the Louisiade Archipelago during the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 1849]
Creator
Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.) Brierly, 1817-1894
Call number
PXD 74
Level of description
item
Date

1849
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
421773
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
Drawings - ca. 90 drawings (pencil - wash - watercolour) - 38 x 60.5 cm. or smaller
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

The sketches feature places visited by the H.M.S. Rattlesnake including the Glasshouse Mountains, Torres Strait Island, the Louisiade Archipelago, and Chaumont, Joannet, Pig, and Rossel Islands.
Scope and Content
There are several drawings of Indigenous people and diagrams detailing dimensions and methods of indigenous canoe construction
Nos. 1-24
1. Glass Houses Moreton Bay, May 25 [18]49; [sailing ship with Glasshouse Mountains in background]; Glass Houses from the sea Louisiade [3 sketches on one sheet of paper]
2. Torres [Strait Island]
3. Joannet Island NW End (Louisiade Archipelago) 3.45 PM 4 June 1849 [with annotations]
4a. Louisiades Western side
4b. Louisiades Western End of Island 16 June 1849
5. Louisiades 16 June 1849
6a. Head of Native Canoe Louisiade 18 June 1849
6b. [Native canoe, with explanatory notes]
7. Louisiade 19 June [18]49 .... reef
8. 9am 19th June 1849. Start point the ship to find passage in the direction of Pirons Island of the Louisiades
9. Sud Est? of the Louisiade 22nd June 1849
10a. Pig Island Louisiade June 23 [18]49
10b. [unfinished pencil sketch]
11a. Bay of Pig Island Louisiade
11b. [unfinished pencil sketch]
12. [Native canoes - 5 sketches with notes] June 24 1849 Louisiade Archipelago
13a. Plan of Rossel Island Canoe Louisiade June 24 1849 [with notes]
13b. [unfinished pencil sketch]
14a. Pinnace sounding [or starting] ahead of ship, Louisiade 25 June 1849
14b. [Landscape and parts of canoes]
15. River, Sud. Est Island Northern Side June 26 1849 [sketches of vegetation].
16. Watering Party aground Sudest Island, Louisiade Archipelago June 26 1849 [with notes]
17. River "Sud Est" Island Louisiade Archipelago 26 June 1849 [with notes]
18. Sud Est Island Natives Louisiade Archipelago June 26 1846 [with colour and drawing notes]
19. Highest Peak Sud Est Island Louisiade Archipelago - 26 June 1849 [also bears date 25 June]
20a. "Sud Est" Louisiade Archipelago June 26 1849 [5 sketches of vegetation]
20b. [Landscape with ship]
21a. Coral Haven Louisiade Archipelago 28 June 1849 [sketches and detailed notes of native canoe]
21b. [unfinished pencil sketch]
22a. [Canoes] Coral Haven Louisiade June 28 1849
22b. Coast of New Guinea 20? Sep. 1849 [unfinished sketch]
23. [Canoe] Coral Haven Louisiade June 28 1849
24. River, "Sud Est" Island Louisiade Archipelago June 29 1849
Nos. 25-45
25. Coral Haven Louisiade Archipelago June 29 1849
26a. July 30 1849 First day of excursion. No.3 [times and notes about course of journey and general description of landscape]
26b. 1st day 30 July 1849 and some particulars of 2nd dimensions - canoe &c. No.4
26c. Joannet Island observe jungle native paths down to Eng part? [reverse of No.26b]
26d. Pinnace sounds round Edge of Reefs - that extend off Isle D. [sketches of landscape with notes on general character of land]
26e. July 3 1840 - 1st day excursion boats to ? Joannet [unfinished sketches of boats and landscape on reverse of No.26d]
27. PM Remarkable large tree - Joannet Island Louisiade Archipelago southern side 4th July 1849
28. Joannet Island July 4th 1849 Morning Cullon? Pinnace - beating off Natives, Co. New Guinea Morning 4 July 1849
29. 2nd Day of Excur. July 4 1849. No.1 [times and notes about course of journey and general description of landscape]
30. 2nd day P.M. NW Extreme Joannet Island Louisiade Archipelago 2.45 P.M. July 4 1849
31. Louisiade 2nd day Ex. [excursion] July 4 1849 [with notes on natives encountered "branding axes". Unfinished sketch on reverse]
32a. 2nd day A.M. Village Western side Joannet Island 11 am July 4th 1849 New Guinea. Native Houses - Louisiade Archipelago. "49" [with detailed notes on number of houses]
32b. SW side of Isle. Some ? large houses
33a. 2nd day. Louisiade Archipelago NW End Joannet Island from boats [symbol of anchor] ge [ie. anchorage] for night 4th July 1849 7.30 A.M. morning of 5th
33b. [Island, unfinished sketch]
34. 2nd day PM./ 5 AM "short a head" July 4th 1849 Joannet & other Islands Louisiade Archipelago
35. 3rd day AM, Sheet 2 / at anchor off NW End Joannet Island Louisiade July 5 1849 [with extensive notes]
36. July 6 1849 off Chaumont Island Louisiade [with notes on characteristics]
37. Chaumont Island [profile of coastline with notes]
38a. 9 AM here are - niggers - watch Bramble. Patch Baunan? SW Sud Chaumont I. [sketch of ships and details of sails]
38b. A some known point from which all the lan...? are measured - A and portion of reef ... [with notes]
39. Bramble Pinnace further? 5 PM 12 July 1849
40. 3rd day July 12 1849. 3 PM along south coast Louisiade Archipelago [2 views]
41. 3rd day 12 July 1849 Louisiade [sketch of boats with notes on colour]
42. 3rd day 12 July 1849. Louisiade [Bramble and anchorage]
43. Friday 13th July 1849 4th day. [native in a canoe, with explanatory notes]
44. 13 July 1849 [sketches of canoe with notes]
45. 13 July 1849 Bramble ... [landscape with canoes in foreground and notes]
Nos. 46-66
46. July 13 Cutter meeting sailing canoe ...
47. Remarkable cliff - Louisiade Archipelago. Sail Rock [with times and notes on journey]
48. Chaumont I. July 17 1849. Chaumont I. Louisiade. Initialled "J.B." in lower right.
49. Chaumont Island 4.30 AM July 17 [coastal profile]1849
50. Eddystone I. 20 July 1849. Louisiades. NW by N
51a. PM Iles Calvados Saturday 2-21-July 9am start in Pinnace...
51b. Eddystone at 4 PM July 22 1849
52. Mewstone Louisiade Archipelago - June 23 1849 [2 landscape sketches]
53. July 24 1849 Louisiade Archipelago [canoe studies. Some text on reverse]
54. July 24 1849 Louisiade Archipelago [native canoe with notes]
55. 25 July 1849 Canoe ...? men at am day time .... [sketches of Pinnace and gun boat from H.M.S. Rattlesnake]
55a. Run out... [sketch on lower half of reverse of No.55]
55b. Remarkable path with? SW side Louisiade Archipelago 23d July 1849
56. Louisiade canoe July 26 1849 [with notes and profile of native]
57. [Coastal landscapes of 3 islands - Eastern most Chatian?, Middle Island Isle Duchateau, Western Island] 31 July 1849
58. Inside Fittings, Canoes, Louisiade Archipelago. H.M.S. Rattlesnake Isles Duchateau Aug 3 1849 [5 sketches with notes]
59-61a. [Studies of female holding paddle]
62a. [Study of female]
62b. [Cloud study. Watercolour]
63a. [Canoe with natives carrying fruit]
63b. [Unfinished sketch of 4 natives and child]
64-65. [Canoe and six natives]
66a. [Canoe with 5 natives visible. Similar to Nos. 64 & 65]
66b. [Study of man with paddle of canoe]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

None of the sketches are signed or initialled by Brierly. The initials ""J.B."" that appear on No.48 may be the monogram of a member of the Rattlesnake expedition, a number of whose initials were J.B. The sketch is very similar in style to Brierly's and is titled and dated in Brierly's hand.
Some sketches have an additional drawing on the reverse and have been numbered a & b accordingly.
Many sketches are annotated with descriptions and colour notes.
No.15 Four of the studies are labelled ""No.1"", ""No.2"", ""No.5"", and ""No.6"". These appear to be continued on sketch No.14. The fifth plant study is unfinished. The sixth sketch is titled, ""Water over rocks 1+1/2 miles from Mouth"".
No.20 Two studies of vegetation are labelled ""No.7"" and ""No.8"" and are in the centre of the sheet.
Three sheets are numbered No. 26 with part numbers from a previous numbering system. No.26d was formerly numbered
No.28 bears watermark, ""Moinier's / Patent / 1848""
No.38 bears crease lines from being folded into quarters.
No.55 comprises two sheets of paper that are pasted together. There is a sketch on the reverse of the smaller and larger sheets.
No.60 On reverse of image, ""New Guinea - Louisiade. Rattlesnake. 44""
Four of the sketches bear an auction label with black numbers. These are: No. 58 (184), No. 59 (48?), No. 61 (40), and 62 (47)
Digital order no:Album ID : 824101
Signatures / Inscriptions

No.48 bears the initials ""J.B.""
Most drawings are titled and dated below image.
Name
Bramble (ship)
Rattlesnake (Ship)
Subject
David Scott Mitchell Collection.
Topic
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
botany
canoes
coasts
islands
Papua New Guinean peoples
seascapes (artwork)
vessels (watercraft)
Place
Glass House Mountains (Qld.)
Louisiade Archipelago (Papua New Guinea)
Pig Island (Qld.)
Rossel Island (Papua New Guinea)
Tagula Island (Papua New Guinea)
Exhibited in

Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (18 October, 2004 - 6 February, 2005). Applies to: ff. 13,48,59-61,64