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Title
A collection of drawings in watercolour, ink and pencil : illustrative of the life, character & scenery of Melbourne 1850-1878. Second series / drawn by William Strutt
Creator
William Strutt, 1825-1915
Call number
DL PXX 6
Level of description
fonds
Date

1850-1878
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
457947
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album of 23 ff. of drawings - 32 x 44.5 cm. in box.
Scope and Content
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952.
Detailed contents list available.
Contains drawings pasted on leaves, with captions in Strutt's handwriting below many of the items.
Predominantly studies of horses.

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 / 1850-1878 / Second Series

f.2a ... Postilions with wigs and pig tails. / From Victor Adam [study of postilions, annotated]
Pencil and wash, 9.9 cm × 10.7 cm (3 7/8" × 4 1/4")

f.2b Sketch of interior of Australia from a clever painting by / Mr. Panton, an ex-squatter & amateur artist, Melbourne 1851 / Mr. Panton's description is most valuable [annotated sketch]
Ink and wash, 9.1 cm × 20.4 cm (3 1/2" × 8")

f.2c Mr. Theophilus Ham on an Australian grey
Pencil and wash, 23.2 cm × 17.2 cm (9 1/8" × 6 3/7")
Signed and dated lower right 'WStrutt. 1851'

f.3a Australian, Victorian, mounted police
Pencil on thin paper, 16.5 cm × 20 cm (5 1/4" × 1 7/8")

f.3b Full dress
Pencil and wash, 14.2 cm × 22.8 cm (5 5/9" × 9")

f.4 Melbourne police / 1861 / Tolerably correct
Pencil and wash, 18.1 × 26.6 cm (7 1/8" × 10 1/4")

f.5a [Horse and rider]
Pencil on thin paper, 11.7 cm × 7.9 cm (4 5/8" × 3 1/8")

f.5b Mob of Horses - Australia
Pencil, 6 cm × 11 cm (2 3/8" × 4 3/8")

f.5c [Horse and rider]
Pencil and ink, 11.3 cm × 7.4 cm (4 1/2" × 2 7/8")

f.5d [Horse and rider]
Pencil, 4.5 cm × 3.9 cm (1 3/4" × 1 1/2")

f.5e Trooper - / pulling up suddenly - from nature / Melbourne
Pencil, 10.8 cm × 12 cm (4 1/2" × 4 3/4")

f.5f [Runner]
Pencil, 3.6 cm × 6 cm (1 3/8" × 2 3/8")

f.5g [Study of a hand gripping a stick]
Pencil, 13.5 cm × 10.2 cm (5 3/8" × 4")

f.6a Genl. Sir E. Macarthur / Capt White & Capt Boyd were escorting [the] General
Pencil and wash, 4.4 cm × 9.7 cm (1 3/8" × 3 7/8")

f.6b [Allegorical subject : three figures]
Pencil, circular, 6.2 cm (2 3/8") diameter

f.6c Military - Troopers Bridle
Pencil and wash, 15.6 cm × 16.6 cm (6 1/8" × 6 1/2")

f.6d Trooper leading Horse
Pencil, 6.4 cm × 6.5 cm (2 1/2" × 2 1/2")

f.6e Sir Edward Macarthur & Staff / Melbourne / The General is riding his favourite horse I painted, for his equestrian portrait
Pencil and wash, 7.9 cm × 15.8 cm (3 1/8" × 6 1/4")

f.7 [White horse, probably Sir Edward Macarthur's 'Welcome' of f. 9]
Oil on canvas, 24.1 cm × 30.5 cm (9 1/2" × 12")

f.8 [Grey horse]
Oil on canvas, 20.7 cm × 27.6 cm (8 1/4" × 10 7/8")

f.9 "Welcome" / Major General Sir Edward Macarthur's favourite charger / Melbourne 1860
Pencil, 25.8 cm × 27.6 cm (9 7/8" × 10 7/8")

f.10a [Horse, annotated]
Pencil, 4.6 cm × 6.2 cm (1 3/4" × 2 1/2")

f.10b [Horse]
Pencil and wash, 5.7 cm × 7.4 cm (2 1/4" × 2 7/8")

f.10c [Horse and rider]
Pencil, 4.2 cm × 4.1 cm (1 5/8" × 1 5/8")

f.10d [Horse's head]
Pencil, 3.3 cm × 3.5 cm (1 3/8" × 1 3/8")

f.10e Australian horse, Melbourne
Pencil, 16.2 cm × 17.3 cm (6 3/8" × 6 7/8")
Signed lower left 'William Strutt'

f.10f [Horse]
Pencil and ink, 3.8 cm × 4.7 cm (1 1/2" × 1 7/8")

f.10g [Horse, annotated]
Pencil, 8 cm × 7.7 cm (3 1/8" × 3")

f.10h [Horse, annotated]
Pencil, 5.3 cm × 8.7 cm (2 1/8" × 3 1/2")

f.11a [Heads of horses]
Pencil and wash, 14.6 cm × 24.1 cm (5 3/4" × 9 1/2")

f.11b [Head and chest of horse]
Pencil, 13.9 cm × 10.6 cm (5 1/2" × 4 1/8")

f.11c White Horse [annotated]
Pencil, 13.9 cm × 11.1 cm (5 1/2" × 4 3/8")

f.12 Light riding horse Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 19.1 cm × 23.2 cm (7 1/2" × 9 1/8")

f.13a Bullock Dray - Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 6.6 cm × 11.2 cm (2 5/8" × 4 3/8")

f.13b Bullock Dray - Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 8.6 cm × 11.1 cm (3 3/8" × 4 3/8")

f.13c Wood Dray - Melbourne
Pencil and wash on blue paper, 3.8 cm × 8.8 cm (1 1/2" × 3 1/2")

f.13d Australian Bullock dray [annotated]
Pencil and wash, 5.1 cm × 8.6 cm. (2" × 3 3/8")

f.13e Cattle on banks of Yarra - Melbourne [annotated]
Pencil and white on yellow paper, 9.5 cm × 16.9 cm (3 3/4" × 6 5/8")

f.13f Bullock team / Young horses with long tails / Driver - Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 9.2 cm × 14.5 cm (3 3/4" × 5 3/4")

f.14a Bullock Drays - Melbourne 1851 / From my window
Pencil and wash, 6.7 cm × 10.5 cm (2 5/8" × 4 1/8")

f.14b Bullock Dray - Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 4.7 cm × 6.3 cm (1 7/8" × 2 1/2")

f.14c [Bullock]
Pencil and wash, 3.8 cm × 4.3 cm (1 1/2" × 1 3/4")

f.14d Bullock team & driver. Melbourne Victoria
Pencil and wash, 9 cm × 13.7 cm (3 1/2" × 5 3/8")

f.14e Digger with red blanket slung on [figure and two studies of bullocks with the note 'The sheep in the bush fire must be shorn, very thin - showing ribs - the cattle hollow & poor' - possibly a note for Strutt's picture 'Black Thursday']
5.3 cm x 6.8 cm (2 1/8" x 2 3/4")

f.15a Sketch at Cattle Yards Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 7.2 cm × 11 cm (2 7/8" × 4 3/8")

f.15b [Head of bullock] from nature
Pencil and wash, 7.3 cm × 7.2 cm (2 7/8" × 2 7/8")

f.15c [Bullock recumbent]
Pencil, 5.4 cm × 7.6 cm (2 1/8" × 3")

f.15d Bullock Team. Melbe / Foam flying from mouth
Pencil and wash, 5.2 cm × 8.9 cm. (2" × 3 1/2")

f.15e [Head and snout of bullock]
Pencil and wash, 7 cm × 11.3 cm (2 3/4" × 4 1/2")

f.15f Sketches at Catttle Yards - Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 7.2 cm × 11.5 cm (2 7/8" × 4 1/2")

f.16a A Shepherd with his flock & Dogs. / Victoria. Australia
Pencil, 4.5 cm × 8.4 cm (1 3/4" × 3 3/8")

f.16b Draught Bullock. Melbourne / 1851
Pencil and wash, 6 cm × 7.4 cm (2 3/8" × 2 7/8")

f.16c Bullock - Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 5.3 cm × 9.1 cm (2 1/8" × 3 5/8")

f.16d Bullock driver, poking with butt end
Pencil and wash on yellow paper, 4.5 cm × 7.5 cm (1 3/4" × 3")

f.16e Draught Bullock. Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 9 cm × 14.1 cm (3 1/2" × 5 5/8")

f.16f Ox of Bullock team. Melbourne
Pencil and wash, 8.8 cm × 10.9 cm (3 1/2" × 4 1/4")

f.17a Bushman driving flock of sheep. Nr Melbourne
Pencil on thin paper within pencil border, 7.4 cm × 10.6 cm (2 7/8" × 4 1/8")
Signed lower right 'W Strutt'

f.17b Bullock team in Dray. Melbourne / 1851
Pencil and wash, 9.2 cm × 12.9 cm (3 5/8" × 5 1/8")

f.17c [Goat]
Pencil, 3.8 cm × 4 cm (1 1/2" × 1 5/8")

f.17d [Goat]
Pencil, 3.8 cm × 4.1 cm (1 1/2" × 1 5/8")

f.17e [Bullock head and nose, annotated]
Pencil and wash, 9 cm × 13.8 cm (3 1/2" × 5 1/2")

f.17f [Yoked bullocks. Compare with bullocks in Strutt's 'Black Thursday']
Pencil and wash, 7.7 cm × 17.7 cm (3" × 7")

f.18a Drove of cattle, dust flying [annotated] / Victoria Australia
Pencil and wash, 4.9 cm × 7.3 cm (1 7/8" × 2 7/8")

f.18b Wool Dray - Melbourne / Market Square / 1851
Pencil and wash, 4.5 cm × 7 cm (1 3/4" × 2 3/4")

f.18c [Mobs of cattle and sheep, annotated]
Pencil and wash, 5.1 cm × 8.2 cm (2" × 3 1/5")

f.18d Australian Sheep
Pencil and wash, 4.2 cm × 5.5 cm (1 3/8" × 2 1/8")

f.18e Flock of Sheep & Shepherd - Melbourne. Australia
Pencil, 6.2 cm × 20 cm (2 1/2" × 7 7/8")

f.18f [A sheep]
Pencil and wash, 3.9 cm × 5.9 cm (1 1/2" × 2 1/4")

f.18g Australian Stockman, from nature - Melbourne / holding the stockwhip & taking a steady canter / Sheep [annotated studies of rider, horse, sheep and bullock]
Pencil and wash, 9.7 cm × 23.8 cm (3 7/8" × 9 3/8")

f.19a En route to Ballaarat 1851 - / Our Dray
Ink and wash, 6 cm × 13.7 cm (2 3/8" × 5 3/8")

f.19b Chain for coupling yoke [annotated studies of parts of bullock and chain]
Pencil and wash, 6.9 cm × 10.9 cm (2 3/4" × 4 1/4")

f.19c [Studies of loaded dray]
Pencil and watercolour, 13.3 cm × 34.2 cm (5 1/4" × 13 1/2")

f.20a Sketch of a Bullock Dray Melbourne ['No 1' pasted at top of sketch] / Some sheep with mouth open & tongue protruding [separate small sketch, compare with sheep in Strutt's 'Black Thursday']
Pencil and wash, 9.8 cm × 16 cm (3 7/8" × 6 1/4")

f.20b Australia. Bullock Dray [annotated]
Pencil and wash, 4.5 cm × 8.8 cm (1 3/4" × 3 1/2")

f.20c Pole & pins - studies of B. Dray ['No 2' pasted at top of sketch]
Pencil and wash, 9.8 cm × 16 cm (3 7/8" × 6 1/4")

f.20d Pole, yoke, pins &c of Bullock Dray & team / Melbourne Australia ['No 3' pasted at top of sketch, annotated]
Pencil and wash, 10.2 cm × 16 cm (4" × 6 1/4")

f.21a Stork. Sepr /83
Pencil and wash, 12.4 cm × 7.3 cm (4 7/8" × 2 7/8")

f.21b Emus
Pencil, 12.1 cm × 19.3 cm (4 3/4" × 7 5/8")

f.21c White Stork [annotated]
Pencil and wash on irregularly shaped paper, 21 cm × 15.4 cm (8 1/4" × 6 1/8")

f.22a [Kookaburra. Compare with Strutt's 'Black Thursday' for which this is possibly a study]
Pencil, 9.6 cm × 15.4 cm (3 3/4" × 6")

f.22b [Sea birds]
Pencil and wash, 5.3 cm × 9 cm (2 1/8" × 3 1/2")

f.22c [Holograph note in ink about 'The Australian Wild Goose']
Small leaf, 6.7 cm × 5.3 cm (2 5/8" × 2 1/8")

f.22d Australian Wild Geese / sketched in the Botanical Gardens Melbourne ...
Pencil and wash, 5.4 cm × 9.2 cm (2 1/8" × 3 5/8")

f.22e Flight of wild geese - Melbourne / They do not seem to keep a very regular line in flying
Pencil, 5.3 cm × 13.7 cm (2 1/8" × 5 3/8")

f.23a Superb - Menura [lyrebird, with small studies of frogs]
Pencil, 20.9 cm × 13.6 cm (8 1/4" × 5 3/8")

f.23b [Cranes and monkeys]
Pencil, 20.9 cm × 13.7 cm (8 1/4" × 5 3/8")

f.23c [Verso of f.23b, tiger and parrots]
Pencil, 20.9 cm × 13.7 cm (8 1/4" × 5 3/8")
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, quarter leather (blue morocco).
Hand lettered title page.
Digital order no:Album ID : 1301441
Signatures / Inscriptions

Some are signed, "William Strutt", "W. Strutt", or "W. S.", some are dated.
Some have captions, and some are extensively annotated.
Exhibited in

Heroes and Villains : Strutt's Australia - National Library of Australia (31 July, 2015 - 4 November, 2016)
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