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Title
George Frederick Dashwood - sketchbooks, 1830-35
Creator
George Frederick Dashwood, 1806-1881
Call number
PXA 1679
Level of description
fonds
Date

1830-1835
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Textual Records
Reference code
456227
Physical Description
Drawings - 83 watercolour, pencil, and ink sketches - various sizes - Sepia ink & watercolour: ff.1-4; pencil: ff.5,8-10,12,14,15,20-23,26 1/2,27 1/2,28 1/2,31 1/2,32,32 1/2,33 1/2,35-37,39,40; pencil & wash: ff.6,7,13,34 1/2,52b,58a,71,74; watercolour: ff.11,53,57,58b,59a,59b,61-63,65,66,68,72,75,76,79,81,82b,83-86,88a,89a; ink: ff.34,45a,45b,52a,54a,54b,55,56,82a; pencil: ff.47a,47b,93; wash: ff.60,64,67,69,73,77,80a,80b,88b,89b; pencil & watercolour: ff.70,78; blank: 16-19,24-26,29-31,38,41-44,46,48-51,[87?],90-92
Textual Records - 9 leaves of manuscript - pasted onto 4 sheets
Textual Records - 1 printed notice - pasted on reverse of contents list
Scope and Content
i. [Contents list for sketchbook no.1, ff.1-35, handwritten in red ink on 2 leaves pasted onto a sheet]
i. [Verso][Printed notice from Colonial Secretary's Office, Nov. 25 1842, appointing G.F. Dashwood and Charles Bonney Magistrates, inscribed in red ink: "No.1 1832/3. 35 folios 70 pages. All original. None pasted in. Sydney, Tahiti, Chili & Rio to England"]
ii-iii. HM Ship Challenger, Captain C.H. Fremantle, from the private journal of Lieutenant G.F. Dashwood [extracts from G.F. Dashwood's journal: chronological account & notes of HMS Challenger, 18/4/1832-April 1833, with description of Sydney Harbour, 15/10/1832; 5 leaves pasted onto 2 sheets]
a. [Sketch of bent figure]
b. [Unfinished sketches: woman's profile, 2 male figures]
1. Town of Sydney from "Windmill Hill", October 21st 1832
2. Sydney Cove from "Challenger's" Anchorage. October 23rd 1832
3. North eastern half of the Harbour of Papiete Tahiti. Decr. 22nd 1832
4. So.[?] Western half of the Harbour of Papiete Tahiti. Decr 22nd. 1832
5. Bas a Minte [?]. 6th Feby 1833 on the Road to St. Iago. So. America
5. [Verso][Unfinished pencil drawing of a building and a man, and partly legible pencil note describing colours of landscape]
6. Part of St. Iago Feby [?] 1833
7. 4[?] Feby. 1833. Distant view of St. Iago & Andes [with legend on verso, running from left to right of view: Theatre; Palace; Prison; Courts of Justice]
8. Plaza, St. Iago, Feby 1833. Santiago di Chili, So. America [legend on verso of f.7, from left to right: Theatre, Palace, Prison, Courts of Justice]
9. Rio Janeiro from Challenger's anchorage April 1833. [Setting?] in of the Sea breezes
10. Part of the City of Rio Janeiro from the Jesuits' College. 1832 [ie. 1833?]
11. Gloria[?] Rio Janeiro. 1833
12. Entrance of Rio Harbour from the Isle of Cobras. 1833
13. Rio de Janeiro April [1833]
14. [House in garden with pool]
15. H.M.S. Vernon, 1834
[16-19. Blank]
20. [Horse]
21. [Outline of ship]
22. [2 unfinished sketches of ships]
23. [Sailing ship at sea]
26 1/2. Meadows Church
27 1/2. [Unidentified house]
28 1/2. [Unidentified house]
[29-31. Blank]
31 1/2. [Horse]
32. [Horse]
32 1/2. [Ship under sail]
33 1/2. [Sketches of faces, cattle and ship, with date "July 6th"]
34. [3 ink sketches of a hut with notations of measurements]
34 1/2. [Verso of 34][Unfinished figure studies in pencil; one profile in ink wash]
35. [Unfinished sketches of a face and two ships, with pencil inscription "Wichelo / Brixton / Near London"]
35 1/2. [Contents list for sketchbook no.3, handwritten in black and red ink, on two leaves pasted onto a sheet]
36. [Sketch of pier and ship's stern]
37. [Outline of boats and ships near shore]
[38. Blank]
39. [Outline of building]
40. [Outline plan of building]
[41-44. Blank]
45a. [Man in stocks]
45b. [Boats and ships moored]
47a. [Sailing boat at anchor]
47b. St. Franciscan Convent [Macao, 1832]
52a. Chinese Eating. 1830
52b. [Two sailing barges]
53. [Two cutters under sail]
54a. [Man praying]
54b. Boats on the Hoogly, 1830
55. [Punishment, flogging]
56. Washing in India. Novr. 1830
57. Fitful Head the scene of many parts of Walter Scott's "Pirate"
58a. [Top sail schooner February 2nd 1835]
58b. View in Pitcairn's Island Janry 1833
59a. [Sailing boats]
59b. Street in Canton, Jany./32
60. [Unidentified view, castle on island]
61. Suburbs of Macao, Feby. 1832
62. General view of the European manufacturies at Canton, Jany. 1832
63. H.M.S Cochin and boats of the Southampton off the [?] on the coast of Malaya in search Piratical Praos Sep. 1830
64. [View; house at left, hills in distance]
65. [Sailing ship in storm]
66. H.M. Sloop Zebra East India. 1831
67. [View; castle on island]
68. Chinese fishing boats frequently seen out of sight of land - 1832
69. Torquay from Livermead Sands Octbr 1833
70. Chudleigh Rock. October 1833
71. Babicombe [ie Babbacombe] Bay near Torquay [Beach?]. Sept. 33
72. [Beached boat converted to house]
73. [Bridge over stream, country]
74. Watcombe near Torquay. Octr. 1833
75. [Canal, Belgium or Holland?]
76. [Sailing boats at sea, firing gun]
77. [Cutter under sail, & schooner]
78. Rio Janeiro, 1836
79. [Boat (HOY) with spare anchors & C [ie Challenger?]]
80a. [Market scene]
80b. [Woodland scene, Lake & Hills]
81. [War ships]
82a. Common Lumber Boat on the Hoogley
82b. [Fore & aft schooner at sea]
83. HMS. Challenger off the coast of China 1832
84. [War ship and paddle steamer near fort]
85. [War ship running before gale]
86. [Pathway up mountain side]
[87. Blank]
88a. [View] Copy from Copley Fielding Sepr. 183[0?]
88b. [Stern of warship, with rowing boat]
89a. New Zeelander's Hut /32
89b. [Warship's bow]
[ff.90-92. Blank]
93. [Unfinished sketch of church]
System of arrangement
The sketchbooks are nos. 1 and 3 of three G.F. Dashwood sketchbooks offered to the Library in 1926. Sketchbook no.2 appears not to have been acquired by the Library. The sketchbooks are accompanied by a handwritten numbered contents list by an unknown compiler. This numbering, including non-consecutive and half-numbers, was retained by the Library for sketchbook no.1. Sketchbook no.3 was renumbered, continuing from sketchbook no.1. Sketchbook no. 1: ff.1-35; sketchbook no. 3: ff.35a-93. Numbers corresponding to titles in the earlier contents list are visible on many sketches in sketchbook no.3. Some of these titles are used or are recorded in the Notes.
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

f.1 filed separately
Unsigned: ff.a,b,2,5,7,8,10,13,52a,54b,56,58b,62,83,88a,89a
Unsigned, untitled, undated: ff.14,20-23,27 1/2,28 1/2,31 1/2,32,32 1/2,33 1/2,34,34 1/2,35-37,39,40,45a,45b,47a,52b,53,54a,55,59a,60,64,65,67,72,73,75,76,79,80a,80 b,81,82b,84-86,88b,89b,93
Signed "G.F.D." at upper right, dated "October 21st 1832" and titled at upper left: f.1
Signed "G.F.D", dated "Decr 22nd 1832" and titled at upper left: f.3
Signed "G.F.D", dated "Decr 22nd 1832" and titled at upper right: f.4
Signed "GFD" at lower left, titled & dated at lower right: f.6
Titled, dated & signed "G.F.D." at lower left; signed & dated "G.F. Dashwood 1833" at lower right: f.9
Signed "G.F.D.", dated 1833 & titled at lower right: f.12
f.15: Signed "G.F.D." and dated "/34" in pencil at lower left; titled in pencil at lower right. Signature and date are recorded in ML Pictures card catalogue but are not in the sketch
Signed "GFD" on back, now covered: ff.57,78
Titled & dated at upper left: ff.5,7,8
Titled & dated at lower right: f.10
Titled at upper left; signed `G.F.D' and dated, lower centre: f.11
f.13 titled & dated at upper right "Rio de Janeiro April[?]". Top right corner missing. Dated from earlier contents list
Titled at lower left: ff.26 1/2,82a
Titled on paper caption pasted below image: ff.47b,57,58b,62,63,68,69,78
Titled & dated on paper caption pasted below image: ff.61,66
Titled & dated at lower centre: ff.52a,54b,56
f.77 untitled; title from earlier contents list, corresponding to number 43 on reverse, now covered. Signed & dated "G F Dashwood May 12 1833" on reverse, now covered
Undated: f.57
Unsigned, undated: ff.26 1/2,47b,82a
Unsigned, untitled: f.58a
Dated at lower left: f.58a
Signed "GFD" on back with title & date, now covered: f.59b
Signed "G.F.D.", titled & dated at lower right: f.74
Titled & dated in ink on reverse, numbered "44": f.83
Dated "-/32" & titled at upper right: f.89a
f.2: 2 unfinished pencil sketches on reverse: 1 depicting an outrigger canoe from above; a second indiscernible sketch
f.7 dated at upper left: [?4] Feby. 1833 [part of date missing with top left corner]
f.9 joined at lower edge to f.10; lower foreground of f.10 extends onto verso of f.9
f.10: unfinished scene in pencil on verso
f.12: pencil sketch of figure holding spear on reverse
f.45a may correspond to Page 10, "Chinese criminal & punishment" in handwritten contents list
f.45b may correspond to Page 12 in handwritten contents list, titled "Various Vessels, ship, 2 brigs & C" (C is possibly HMS Challenger, in background at left, in blue ink?). Partly legible inscription in pencil at lower edge: "[?..] Boat [?..] Brig"
f.47b: Titled from handwritten caption in ink mounted below sketch and from title of Page 12 in earlier handwritten contents list. Identified as Macao by comparison with sketch by William Alexander dated 1792-94 in British Library (Shelfmark WD 959).
Titles are attributed to the following sketches from the earlier contents list: f.52b: Page 13; f.53: Page 14
The following sketches have numbering (some obscured) from the earlier contents list and are titled accordingly: f.54a: Page 15; f.55: Page 16; f.58a: Page 19; f.73: Page 25; f.77: Page 43; f.79: Page 38; f.80b: Page 21; f.81: Page 42; f.82b: Page 37; f.85: Page 48; f.89b: Page 50
f.60 depicts same scene as f.67, previously numbered "41": "Country scene" in earlier contents list
f.61: signed, titled & dated on reverse, now covered. Titled & dated in ink on caption mounted below image
f.62: titled & dated on reverse (now covered) & titled in ink on caption mounted beside image
f.63: titled and dated in ink on caption pasted on reverse
f.65 may correspond to Page 26: "War brig reefing topsails" in earlier contents list
f.66: Title, month & year, and signature "GFD" on reverse, now obscured. Title and date in ink on caption mounted below image
f.70,71: title, date & signature "GFD" on reverse, now covered
f.78: titled, dated & signed "Rio Janeiro 1836 GFD" on reverse, now covered
f.87 unlisted or listed [Blank?] in Library contents lists
f.88a: badly stained. Title refers to Copley Fielding (1787-1855), British watercolour landscape painter. Number 47 on reverse (now covered) corresponds to "Lake, country scene" in previous contents list.
In 1980 the volume was disbound, the sketches un-mounted, deacidified, and either encapsulated in mylar or rebacked -- note on reverse of ML Pictures catalogue card
Covers of previous library binding are kept with sketches. Title stamped on spine: "Drawing Book. No 1, No 3. Dashwood". Date gilt stamped inside back cover: "Mar. 1928"
Card index entries for ff.58b,63,66,83,89a state that the sketches are in "sketchbook 2". These are the only sketches in the albums that are given an index entry under artist and the reference to "sketchbook 2" rather than sketchbook 3 may be a consistent error, as the Library acquired no "sketchbook 2".
Transferred from MLMSS, November 1974
Window mounts: ff.1,2,8,83
ff.i-iii,3,4 pasted to backing sheet and encapsulated in mylar
Pasted to backing sheet: ff.a,b,3,4,27 1/2,35a,36,37-47b,52b,53,57-58b,59-82b,84-93
ff.65,75 stained
Digital order no:Album ID : 823760
Signatures / Inscriptions

"[...] including the Government Domain and Stables, and Entrance to the Cove of Sydney. G.F.D. - October 21st, 1832" -- f.1, inscribed in sepia ink at upper right. First part of inscription missing with upper right corner
"New So. Wales" added in pencil below title at top left -- f.2
"The principal town in the Island of Otaheita [sic]. South Seas" -- pencil note beside title, f.3
"[Mrs?] Dashwood 2 vol. Ja/-/- 15-10-26" -- inscribed in Library officer's hand at lower right, inverse to image, f.36
"View in Pitcairn's Island Feby 1833 GFD / [Hannah Young?] & Ed Quintal's house" -- inscriptions on reverse of f.58b, now covered, partly legible
Name
Challenger (ship: Captain = Charles Fremantle)
Subject
Adult Females
children
Adult Males
Topic
beaches
canals
churches
colonial art
convents
fishing boats
fortifications
harbours
horses
houses
huts
landscapes (views)
Maoris
markets
mountains
official buildings
paddle steamers
praying
sailing ships
schooners (ships)
sketchbooks
stocks (punishment)
storms
city & town views
warships
washing (activity)
watercolours
whippings (punishment)
Place
Canton (China)
Macau (China: Special Administrative Region)
Papeete (Tahiti)
Pitcairn Island.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Santiago (Chile)
Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
Torquay (Devon, England)
Exhibited in

Observing Sydney - views of and from Observatory Hill - S.H. Ervin Gallery (May 1993 - June 1993). Applies to: f.1
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 (November 2006 - January 2007). Applies to: ff.11,13
Mutiny on the Bounty : the story of Captain William Bligh seaman, navigator, surveyor and of the Bounty mutineers - State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: f.58b
Painting the Pacific - State Library of New South Wales (January 2002 - April 2002). Applies to: ff.2,8,58
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