• Title
  Item 02: The Dandenong Ranges, 1855-1858 / Eugene von Guerard
• Call number
  DL PXX 13
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1855-1858
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  446441
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  21 drawings - pencil, ink, pencil and ink, ink and wash - various sizes in album 37.5 x 59 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  6 pencil, 1 ink, 1 pencil and ink, and 12 ink and wash drawings in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering) titled Von Guerard / The Dandenong Ranges.
  
  Nos. 2-6, 8, 11-12, 14-15, 18 contain descriptive notes in German.
  
  [i.] Fortes Fortuna Junvat, William Dixson [bookplate on front cover verso]
  [ii.] A.H. Spencer, New & Secondhand Bookseller, Publisher, Fine Art Dealer, 86 Bourke St., Melbourne (the `Hill of Content') Aust. [label lower right on front cover verso]
  f. 1. Dandenong. Gap Hills ... No. 11, 1855- 1857- 1858 ... [title page]
  f. 2. Separation Creek & Hill, 29 Sept. 1858. Signed `E.v.G' lower right
  f. 3. Spliters [sic] Gully, Dienstag [Tuesday] 21. Sept. 1858
  f. 4. The Dandenong Ranges seen from the East, Montag [Monday] 20th Sept. 1858
  f. 5. Very likely one of the upper fall [sic] of the Yarra 25-30 miles east from Dandenong Ranges, Monday 27. Sept 1858. Signed `E.v.G' lower right
  f. 6. The Dandenong Ranges, 25 January 1857
  f. 7. View fr. The Gap Hills north, 23 January 1857
  f. 8. Wiew [sic] of the Giplland [sic] Alps from the last of the Gap Hills near the Dandenong Ranges, Freitag [Friday] d. 23 Januar [sic] 1857
  f. 9. Dandenong Ranges. Ferntree Gullet [sic]. 20 Feb, 1855
  f. 10. Dandenong Ranges. Fern Gully. Mittel [Middle] Creek, 19. February 1855
  f. 11. Maywald [?] Dandenong Ranges Fernrichtgeyen, Dienstag [Tuesday] 20th Feb. 1855
  f. 12. Ober Ferrn Gullet Mittelkrick [sic] Dandenong Ranges, 19. Feb. 1855
  f. 13. Dandenong Creek. 15.M. f. Melbourne
  f. 14. Police Station ... Gap Hills ... station [?] native Police, 21 Feb. 1855.
  f. 15. Der [The] Dandenong Ranges ven [from] G. Wehers Station, 21 Feb. 1855
  f. 16. Bryartys Station on the Wandir Creek. Steels Flat. 29. Sept. 1858
  f. 17. Spliters [sic] Gully 15-16 miles east of the Dandenong Township. 21 Sept 1858
  f. 18. North East of the Rainy Hills. Sonntag [Sunday] 26 Sept. 1858
  f. 19. Part of the Yarra Ranges seen from the East, 28. Sept.1858
  f. 20. Return Creek, 27. Sept. 1858. Signed `Eug.v.Guerard' lower left
  f. 21. [Fern Gully with waterfall, possibly in the Dandenongs]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Bound by Wallis -- printed on reverse of marbled end paper
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823444
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Three of the drawings are signed, seventeen are dated and eighteen are titled.
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  bush
  creeks
  eucalypts
  farms
  ferns
  gullies
  hills
  horses
  huts
  logs
  mountain scenes
  mountains
  police stations
  rifles
  tracks
  tree ferns
  waterfalls
  
• Place
  Dandenong Ranges (Vic.)
  Victoria
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed - Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (16 April - 7 August, 2011). Applies to: DL PXX 13
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1084214

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