430861
- Title[Watercolour drawings mainly of South Australian scenes / attributed to William Anderson Cawthorne]
- Creator
- Call numberPXD 40
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Type of material
- Reference code430861
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical DescriptionDrawings - 46 watercolour - 2 pencil drawings - 32.3 x 49.5 cm. or smaller
- Scope and Content1. The Althorpes
2. Mt. Torrens K.I. [i.e. Kangaroo Island]
3. West Adelaide Rifles firing at Micham Capt. W.A. Cawthorne [titled on reverse]
4. Mt Gambier Crater S.A.
5. Church Norton's Summit
6a. Water Works Mt Torrens Gorge
6b. Aboriginal figures holding shield and spears [unfinished sketches]
7-8. Coastal Scenery Spencers Gulf
9. Gawler Plains shewing [i.e. showing] Gawler River
10. Old Gum Tree Gawler River [titled on mount]
11. Coastline in Edithburgh [York Peninsula]
12. Mt Lofty 2400ft
13. View from my bit of ground at Pt Elliot / W.A.C.
14. Hulks Large [or Largs] Bay / W.A.C.
15a. Moonlight Boston Bay
15b. Hancock's Beach [missing]
16. Eyre's Willow at Moorundee River Murray. Woolley Duffield - Cawthorne
17. River Murray / W.A.C. [in ink on front] River Murray S.A. - showing the gum tree from which the shepherds wife was drowned (murdered?)
18a. Entrance to Murray [Two Australian Aborigines in foreground]
18b. [Seascape. Unfinished pencil sketch]
19a. Drouned [i.e. drowned] at the Sea Mouth of the Murray. (Macfarline) / W.A.C. [initialled twice]
19b. [Man drowning in ocean]
20a. Mcfarline drowned Nov. 1856 on ... to sea - sunset. Holding up an oar for a signal, he was seen ... [with 3 profiles in pencil at right of image]
20b. From life [watercolour of two birds]
21a. Blyth's cutting near Houghton
21b. [Landscape. Unfinished pencil sketch]
22. Houghton
23. Victor Harbour [with list of words, "length ... cap"]
24. East Terrace ["Adelaide" on reverse of mount]
25a. Port Vincent looking E. [east]
25b. Port Vincent tide out looking E
26. Port Vincent (west side) Gulf [of] St Vincent
27a. Pt Vincent S.A. on the day when the first auction of sale of land was offered
27b. [Sturt's desert peas]
28. Light House at Entrance to Port Adelaide S.A. [inscribed on front and back] This sketch to be returned when done with W.A. Cawthorne
29. Pilot Station Semaphore Beach - Port Adelaide (NB The jetty is a quarter of a mile long) [with additional notes]
30. Blanche Town - River Murray S.A. [with notes]
31. Putting out a bush fire
32. A Mangrove Creek S.A. / W.A.C.
33. Out Station in the Scrub. Watering Sheep - thermometer 160 [degrees symbol] all day (Sheep Station). Well 100ft deep hence water drawn up by bullocks
34. View in the Hills
35. A Sketch from nature [Two Aboriginal men in bushland]
36. 'South Australian' entering a Rain Squall Gulf - S.A. / W.A.C.
37. Witton Rock near Onkaparinga
38a. Rocks in [or Eu or Emu] Bay / W.A.C.
38b. Making Breakwater Pt Victor
38c. Bird on Stone E. Bay / W.A.C.
38d. Beach in Bay S.A. - System of arrangementViews were arranged according to size by previous SLNSW staff.
- General note
The watercolours are executed in a similar style to Cawthorne's sketchbooks B 233 and B 234, and the handwriting also corresponds to Cawthorne.
None of the drawings are dated.
Many drawings have an illustration on the reverse.
Some drawings have a border.
No. 15b is missing.
Nos. 25a-b are drawn on the same sheet.
Nos. 38a-d are drawn on the one sheet. The inscriptions on the reverse (particularly the name of the Bay) are difficult to read. - Signatures / Inscriptions
Most drawings are titled on the reverse.
Eight drawings are initialled, "W.A.C" - Attributions / conjectures
Correction to no. 14 supplied by Richard Merry, January 2010 - Topic
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