446877
- TitleThe valley of the Upper Murray taken from Welaregang Station in 1857 / John Rae
- Creator
- Call numberDGA 8
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1857 - Type of material
- Reference code446877
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical DescriptionDrawings - 10 watercolour panels mounted onto linen to form 1 panorama that folds into sections within a bound album - 24 x 314 cm., folding into an album 35 x 33 cm.
- Access Conditions
Access via appointment - Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales - Description source
Titled from album cover - General note
Welaregang (Co. Selwyn) (Native name "Erairedang") On the mouth of the Tooma River.
Taken up by Shelley, of Tumut, before 1839, it was sold in that year to John Hay (afterwards Sir John), who arrived in Australia in 1838. Ham's Official Map, of 1847, shows Gray as holder, but in 1852, Hay was still gazetted as lessee. In 1848, Hay and Chalmers, or Chambers were lessees of 22,260 acres. In 1848, James Chambers, or Chalmers, offered it for sale with Indi. The two runs then carried 1,800 cattle and 100 horses. No record of sale is found till in the following year Basil Gray purchased it with 3,000 cattle for 23,000 pounds.
... only in 1860 was the transfer from Hay and Chambers to James Chambers gazetted. In 1865, the area is given as 13,440 acres estimated to carry 1,300 cattle, at a rent and charges of 80 pounds. In 1868, Gray sold to Graham and Mcdonald, from whom it was transferred to McDonald and De Salis, but in 1871, Basil Gray re-purchased it. At this time the rent had been reduced by selection to 23 pounds, and when Gray sold it in 1882, to Louis Huon, was only 10 pounds. In 1884, Paton Bros. bought the property, and it still remains with that family. -- Source: The first settlement of the Upper Murray, 1835 to 1845 : with a short account of over two hundred runs, 1835 to 1880 / by Arthur Andrews. Sydney : Ford, 1920
For a map of Welaregang and the Murray properties, see: The first settlement of the Upper Murry / A. Andrews
Digital order no:Album ID : 823496 - Signatures / Inscriptions
J. Rae 1857 signed at lower right of RHS panorama - Subject
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Grand Vistas - Panoramas from the collection - State Library of New South Wales (27 May, 2022 - 16 April, 2023)
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