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Title
A collection of drawings in watercolour, ink and pencil : illustrative of the life, character & scenery of Melbourne 1850-1862. First series / drawn by William Strutt
Creator
William Strutt, 1825-1915
Call number
DL PXX 5
Level of description
fonds
Date

1850-1862
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
457946
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album of 25 ff. of drawings - 32 x 44.5 cm. in box.
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

William Strutt, b. England 1825, d. England 1915; lived in Victoria for 12 years, 1850-1862. A portrait and history painter, he depicted scenes of Ballarat goldfields, bushfires, bush life, portraits, animals, the Burke and Wills exploring expedition, Aboriginal and other mounted police and other portraits. His work is a pictorial record of the colony for the period.
Scope and Content
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952.
Contains photographs and drawings and prints, pasted on leaves, with captions in Strutt's handwriting below many of the items.

f.1 Title page : A Collection of Drawings / in Watercolour Ink & Pencil / By William Strutt. R.B.C. F.Z.S. / Illustrative of the Life, Character & / Scenery of Melbourne / 1850-1862 / First Series

f.2a Ship Culloden 1850 / On guard / Waiting for the / enemy
Ink and watercolour, 26.2 cm × 15.3 cm (10 1/4" × 6")
Signed lower left 'Wm Strutt'

f.2b William Strutt RBC. / FZS.
Photograph, 14.2 cm × 9.9 cm (5 1/2" × 3 7/8")
Photographer's signature at lower right on mount 'H.Seymour Cousens' with address, 'Tun. Wells'

f.3a J.P. Fawkner M.L.C. - / Founder of Melbourne - / Drawn in 1853 from nature. / .....
[compare watercolour and ink drawing in Strutt's Melbourne Drawings, Series 5, f.17, which is the same]
Pencil and watercolour, 18.6 cm x 14.5 cm (7 1/4" x 5 3/4")
Signed lower right, 'W.Strutt' and dated below signature '1853'

f.3b John Pasco Fawkner / Founder of Melbourne
Photograph, 14.5 cm × 9.9 cm (5 3/4" × 3 7/8")

f.4 Childrens Missionary Meeting on board the 'John Williams' / Railway Pier, Hobsons Bay, December 23, 1856. / Respectfully Dedicated to the Friends of Missions / by their Obt Servant The Artist
Drawn & Lithographed by William Strutt
Printed by De Gruchy & Leigh
20 cm × 32.9 cm (7 7/8" × 13")

f.5a The Pirate [Ship].
Pencil and watercolour, 13.3 cm × 13.6 cm (5 1/4" × 5 3/8")

f.5b Hulk in Hobson's Bay - Melbourne - / perhaps the Convict Ship.
Pencil and wash, 12.7 cm × 19.9 cm (5" × 7 7/8")

f.6a 'Charles Never' / Tailor to the Black Troopers
Pencil and watercolour, 14.9 cm × 14.7 cm (5 7/8" × 5 3/7")

f.6b [Black Trooper. The same as f.6c following]
Pencil and thin paper, 10 cm × 8.4 cm (3 7/8" × 3 3/8")

f.6c Black Trooper. Melbourne. / Decr. 1850
Pencil and watercolour, 13.2 cm × 16.8 cm (5 1/4" × 6 5/8")
Signed below left 'William Strutt'

f.7a Trooper
Pencil, 4.9 cm × 5.8 cm (1 7/8" × 2 1/4")

f.7b Trooper
Pencil, 5.1 cm × 6.7 cm (2" × 2 5/8")

f.7c Black Trooper / of the Melbourne Force - 1851
Pencil and watercolour on brown paper, 16.2 cm × 17 cm (6 3/4" × 6 3/4")
Signed lower left corner 'William Strutt 1851'

f.7d Genl. Sir E. Macarthur
Pencil on paper of irregular shape, 5 cm × 4.1 cm (2" × 1 5/8")

f.7e Stockman
Pencil and wash, 7.4 cm × 4.8 cm (2 7/8" × 1 7/8")

f.8a Coruncuiam [and] Munight [Black Troopers]
Lithograph, 13.5 cm × 20 cm (5 1/4" × 7 7/8")
Signed in pencil lower left corner 'William Strutt del'

f.8b [Another print of f.8a on slightly larger paper]
Below both prints is a pencil caption in Strutt's hand 'Drawn on Zinc. Printed by Thomas Ham - Melbourne - 1851'

f.9a Queensland Woman & child [aborigines]
Pencil and wash, 8.3 cm × 5.1 cm (3 1/4" × 2")

f.9b Queensland Native [head of a man]
Pencil and wash, 8.5 cm × 5.1 cm (3 3/8 " × 2")

f.9c Aboriginal of South Australia / South Australian
Pencil and wash, 5.2 cm × 8.2 cm (2" × 3 1/4")

f.9d Australian Woman [with child, heads. A detail from f.9a above]
Pencil and wash, 5.2 cm × 8.2 cm (2" × 3 1/4")

f.9e [Head of an aborigine]
Pencil and wash, 7.5 cm × 7.7 cm (3" × 3")
Signed lower left corner 'Wm Strutt'

f.10 Golden Point. Ballarat. Victoria
Hand-coloured lithograph, 21.2 cm × 30.5 cm (8 3/8" × 12")
Stone signed lower right corner 'W.Strutt' and dated '1851' in pencil, below view

f.11 Morning Star in tropics. Porpoises gambolling March 20th 1862- / Homeward voyage from Melbourne / Great Britain S.S.
Pencil on tinted paper, circular 22 cm (8 5/8") diameter

f.12a Gold Diggings. October 1851 / On the road to Ballaarat - Diggers huts / Gold Diggers branch huts, or "Mia Mia's" / What I saw on my trip to the Diggings, Ballaarat. Victoria 1851
Ink and watercolour, 12.7 cm × 19.7 cm (5" × 7 3/4")
Signed lower right 'Wm Strutt'

f.12b Crossing a Creek at Bacchus Marsh / The rush to Ballaarat 1851 - Bacchus Marsh - crossing the Creek - Bogged. ...
Ink and watercolour, 12.7 cm × 20 cm (5" × 7 7/8")
Signed lower right 'W. Strutt'

f.12c Sketch on plains Victoria / Australian Scraps, Melbourne
Pencil, 4.7 cm × 11.3 cm (1 7/8" × 4 1/2")

f.12d Unloading Large bundles of sheepskins - / Bullock Drays - Melbourne - 1851 - / Market Square
Pencil and wash, 5.3 cm × 10.6 cm (2 1/8" × 4 1/4")

f.13a How Mr Golden Rule crossed a Creek ad vivum ...
Pencil and watercolour, 14.2 cm × 25.6 cm (5 5/8" × 10 1/8")

f.13b Old Wooden Bridge Melbourne / 1850 / Vol 1 - p 169 / Illustrated Australian Magazine / This view should be photographed ... [Tracing of a lithograph in Illustrated Australian Magazine Vol. 01 opp. p. 175]
Pencil and white on thin paper, 11.5 cm × 17.7 cm (4 1/2" × 7")

f.13c Branch of Gum tree & scene / near Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 5.3 cm × 8.8 cm (2 1/8" × 8 1/2")
Signed lower right corner 'W. Strutt' and inscribed below signature 'Melbourne'

f.14a Bush Fires. Night Scene - Melbourne - / a beautiful effect
Pencil and wash, 10.2 cm × 25.4 cm (4" × 10")

f.14b Hut on the banks of the Yarra - 1852
Pencil, 12.7 cm × 16.5 cm (5" × 6 1/2")

f.14c My trip to the Ballarat Diggings. / Our dray getting near Keilor Plains / drawn by William Strutt. R.B.C. F.Z.S.
Pencil and watercolour, 12.7 cm × 20.4 cm (5"× 8")
Signed lower left corner 'William Strutt' and in lower right corner 'W. Strutt' and dated below signature 'Octr. 1851'

f.15a Our Tent at the Ballaarat Diggings / Our Tent at Ballaarat 1851. Stringy Bark
Pencil, ink and watercolour, 12.5 cm × 19 cm (4 7/8" × 7 3/7")
Signed lower right corner 'Wm Strutt' and dated below signature 'Octr 1851'

f.15b The Gold Commissioners tent - Ballarat - / Mr. Armstrong the Commissioner at the tent door
Pencil, ink and watercolour, 12.8 cm × 24.8 cm (5" × 9")

f.16 [Group with horse, and covered wagon on fire]
Pencil and watercolour, 18.8 cm × 38.2 cm (7 3/8" × 15")

f.17a Mr Golden Rule takes to his heels
Pencil, ink and watercolour, 13.5 cm × 21.2 cm (5 1/4" × 8 3/8")

f.17b [Wagons crossing a river by punt]
Pencil and watercolour, 15.3 cm × 22.3 cm (6" × 8 3/8")

f.17c Study of ground - near Melbourne [annotated]
Pencil and wash. 10.1 cm × 13.8 cm (4" × 5 1/2")
Signed lower right corner 'W. Strutt'

f.18a Ballaarat Diggers [studies of clothing, etcetera]
Pencil, 5.4 cm × 10.9 cm (2 1/8" × 4 1/4")

f.18b A tent scene & making a Damper / Ballarat 1851
Pencil, ink and watercolour, 9.5 cm × 13.8 cm (3 3/4" × 5 1/2")
Signed left below view 'William Strutt'

f.18c Digger
Pencil and wash, 4.5 cm × 2.5 cm (1 3/4" × 1")

f.18d Ballarat Diggers [studies]
Pencil and wash, 7.7 cm × 16.3 cm (3" × 6 3/8")
Signed lower right corner 'William Strutt'

f.18e Diggers sketched at Ballarat [studies of legs]
Pencil, 6.4 cm × 11.2 cm (2 1/2" × 4 3/8")

f.19a [Diggers at work]
Ink and watercolour, 20.8 cm × 14 cm (8 1/8" × 5 1/2")

f.19b At Ballan. / A Bushman's Hut on the road to the Ballaarat Diggings. Built of slabs, with wooden chimney & stringy bark roof
Pencil on paper of irregular shape, 11.4 cm × 16.5 cm (4 1/2" × 6 1/2")
Signed lower right corner 'Wm Strutt'

f.20 On the Black Hill / Ballaarat / Taking washing stuff down to the Creek
Pencil and watercolour, 15.7 cm × 24.1 cm (6 1/8 " × 9 1/2")

f.21a Mr Theophilus Ham in an old hat / [with] flies on his coat ...
Pencil and watercolour, 11.2 cm × 9.5 cm (4 3/8" × 3 3/4")
Dated at right '1851'

f.21b Country man - Melbourne / a country Colonist tipycal / Melbourne
Pencil and watercolour, 8 cm × 6.6 cm (3 1/4" × 2 5/8")
Signed lower right corner 'W. Strutt' and dated below signature '1851'

f.21c Type of the characters who / so alarmed Mr. Golden Rule [head]
Pencil, ink and watercolour, 13.2 cm × 11.2 cm (5 1/8" × 4 1/2")

f.21d [Man crawling across a log bridge]
Ink and watercolour, 13.3 cm × 17.3 cm (5 1/4" × 6 7/8")

f.22a Men rushing the Cattle of a Bullock Dray in / crossing a Creek - Victoria Australia
Pencil, 20.3 cm × 25.2 cm (8" × 9 7/8")

f.22b Bullock driver
Pencil and watercolour, 4.9 cm × 4.3 cm (2" × 1 3/4")

f.22c Bullocks in Cattle Yards. Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 7.2 cm × 11.5 cm (2 7/8" × 4 1/2")

f.22d [Sheep and cattle]
Ink and wash, 2.1 cm × 10.1 cm (7/8" × 4")

f.22e Cattle Yards / Melbourne Cattle Yards
Pencil and wash, 7.2 cm × 11.1 cm (2 7/8" × 4 3/8")

f.23 [Trooper on horse-back]
Pencil, 30.6 cm × 28.5 cm (12" × 11 1/4")

f.24 [Trooper on horse-back]
Pencil, 30.6 cm × 28.2 cm (12" × 11 1/8")

f.25a Sergeant Darby - Police Trooper. Bush dress - 1861 - / Melbourne - Victoria
Pencil and wash, 25.2 cm × 17.6 cm (10" × 6 7/8")

f.25b About proportion of mounted to standing figures [annotated]
Pencil, 21 cm × 14.4 cm (8 1/4" × 5 3/4")
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Bound by Sangorski & Suttcliffe, London, in quarter leather (blue morocco).
Hand lettered title page.
Digital order no:Album ID : 1301439
Signatures / Inscriptions

Some are signed "Wm Strutt", or "W. Strutt", many have handwritten captions.
Some are dated.
Exhibited in

A Century of Portraits : an Exhibition of Portraits Selected from the Collections of the Mitchell and Dixson Galleries - State Library of New South Wales (1 January - 9 September, 1979). Applies to: f. 9
Dixson 60 - State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: Vol. 10/16b
Heroes and Villains : Strutt's Australia - National Library of Australia (July, 2015 - November, 2016)
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