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Title
Volume 02: Sketchbook XXIII. No. 5 Australian. Australia. May, 1855 / by Eugene von Guerard
Call number
DGB 16/vol. 2
Level of description
item
Date

1855
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
824692
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 sketchbook - 75 drawings - chiefly ink with some pencil; drawings on both sides of the paper ; 17 x 10.5 cm.
Scope and Content
Areas & subjects: Queenscliff (Vic.), Cape Schanck, Flinders Island, Cape Pillar, Tasman Peninsula, Hobart & surroundings, Perth (Tas.), Launceston, Georgetown

73 leaves numbered by Mitchell Library

[i]. Engraving of ships at sea pasted on front fly leaf.
['Homeward Bound, Distant View of Brill engraving by William Miller after Clarkson Stanfield' identified from similar engraving in Travelling sketches on the Rhine, and in Belgium and Holland : with twenty-six beautifully finished engravings, from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq. / by Leitch Ritchie, Esq., author of "Romance of French history," &c., London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1833]

f. 1. Pornit [i.e. Point] Nepean Heads – 9 Mai 1855
f. 2. L.L. small sketch Kirche in Lanceston [sic]
f. 3. Point Nepean.
f. 4. Cape Schank Kûrte – n.v. Heads
[clouds with rain]
f. 5. Cape Schank Pulpit Buck [Rock]
f. 6. Flinders Island – 10 Mai 55
f. 7. Flinders & Cape Barren.
f. 8. Flinders Island with lighthouse.
f. 9. Barren Island.
f. 10. Clark Island … Cap Barren.
f. 11. Great or Flinders Island …
f. 12. a. Ben Lomond … from island – 10 Mai 55
f. 13. [coastline]
f. 14. Edderston Point – coastline.
f. 15. [East coast] V.D.L. about 10 Mai 55 [ship & coast]
f. 16. Spât [?] Ôstlche [?] Spitze. – 10 Mai 55 v,.V.D.L.
f. 17. Morgens … P. Piraten [?] Bay – 11 Mai 55.
[Tas coast rock detached from shore]
f. 18. Cap Pillar v. Nord – 11 Mai 55.
[outline of rock]
f. 19. v. Sud noch Nord [Tas. coast].
f. 20. [Tas. Coast]
f. 21. Tassmans [sic] Island & Cap Pillar Puffals [?].
f. 22. Tassmans [sic] Peninsula.
Tassmans [sic] Peninsula.
f. 23. Tassmans [sic] Peninsula.
Tassmans [sic] Peninsula – 11 Mai 55.
f. 24. Port Arthurs [i.e Arthur].
f. 25. Cap Roaual [i.e Raoul] … Storm Bay.
f. 26. Storm Bay – 11 Mai 55.
f. 27. [coastline]
f. 28. Link n,d Storm Bay d. West Kusten n.V. D.L.
f. 29. Mount Wellington Storm Bay.
f. 30. Hobart Town Bay. Iron pot Island Storm Bay
f. 31. Derwent Bay
f. 32. Mt. Wellington Hobart Town 13 Mai 55
f. 33. Mt. Wellington m.n. Osland [?] – 13 Mai.
verso New Norfolk – 14 Mai 55.
[Plant] Government garden Hobart town – 14 Mai.
f. 34. Riesenet Agave Government garden Hobart town – 14 Mai
f. 35. Government garden in Derwent – 14 Mai Hobart town.
f. 36. Hobart Town – 14 Mai
f. 37. Hobart town – 14 Mai.
f. 38. 14 Mai Hobart town Wellington.
verso Salvator Rosa’s Glen Bei Hobart town – 14 Mai.
f. 39. Salvator Rosa’s Glen – 14 Mai.
Hobart town Mount Wellington.
f. 40. Kangaroo Point – 15 Mai 1855.
Kangaroo Point [rocks]
f. 41. Kangaroo Point – 15 Mai 1855.
f. 42. New Kirche Hobart town – 16 Mai 55. St John.
f. 43. Hobart town river.
Hobart town – 18 Mai 55
f. 44. Salvator Rosa’s Glen by Hobart town – 16 Mai.
f. 45. Hobart town small studies of – 18 Mai.
Windmill, 2 churches, 1 town church
High school – Governor’s residency.
Hobart town – 18 Mai.
f. 46. North M, Wellington from the Derwent – 18 Mai.
Bridgwater Derwent – 18 Mai. M. Wellington. N.v. North Seite.
f. 47. New Norfolk. Derwent – 19 Mai.
Derwent - Bridgewater – 19 Mai.
f. 48. Walle of Bagdad from Owens [?] – 20 Mai 55.
f. 49. Barren Rock – Bagdad Creek – 20 Mai 55.
f. 50. Nebunttal [?] von Green Ponds – 21 Mai.
f. 50a. Table Mountain Oatlands – 21 Mai
f. 51. … Boss Mona Hill [?] – 21 Mai.
f. 52. Mûkle [mill] Campbell Town – 21 Mai 55.
f. 53. Gei Campbell Town – 22 Mai
f. 54. Ben Lomond … Campbell Town – 22 Mai 55.
f. 55. St Pauls Dom - - Berge-Epping Forest – 22 Mai
f. 56. Epping Forest – 23 Mai 55.
f. 57. Theil der Western Tiers Perth – Mai 23
f. 58. L.[?] Esk Perth – 23 Mai.
f. 59. Western Tiers Perth – 23 Mai 55.
f. 60. Bei Perth – Longford 23 Mai 55
f. 61. Perth – 23 Mai.
f. 62. Perth – 24 Mai 55.
f. 63. Lanceton [i.e. Launceston] – 24 Mai.
f. 64. 24 Mai Lanceton
f. 65. Lanceton [i.e. Launceston] – 24 Mai.
f. 66. Lanceton [i.e. Launceston] – 25 Mai. Oberhall v. Cataracton.
f. 67. 25 Mai Obere Cataracton bei Lanceton [Launceston?].
f. 68. Esk River 25 Mai.
Lanceton [i.e. Launceston] 27 Mai.
f. 69. Sûd ostlicher Borge v. Lanceton [i.e. Launceston]
f. 70. Tamar n of Norden
f. 71. Georg Town [i.e. George Town] – 29 Mai 55
f. 72. Georg Town [i.e. George Town] – 29 Mai 55. Tamar lady bird
f. 73. Georg Town [i.e. George Town] – Tamar – 29 Mai 55
verso Crocodiles back & Wilsons Promontory
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Published Information
Ruth Pullin in Eugene Von Guérard and the ‘History Painting of Nature’, Island 126 : Spring 2011 makes references to Sketchbook XXIII. No. 5 Australian. Australia. May, 1855.¶Reference:¶http://www.islandmag.com/upfiles/im/cont/island_126/ruth_pullin_with_footnotes.pdf (accessed March 14, 2012)
Description source

Contents list transcribed in 2008 from listing compiled by Edward Comstock, 1970 (PXn 571)
General note

Microfilm available at CY 609
Digital order no:Album ID : 908615
Signatures / Inscriptions

In German. Drawings are chiefly titled and dated; some have further descriptive notes. Inside back cover, “1855 Tasmania”. Note written in German (starts “Simba Vial Sz…”) pasted inside front cover.
Topic
mountains
trees
landscapes (artwork)
Place
Tasmania
Queenscliff (Vic.)
Cape Schanck Coastal Park (Vic.)
Flinders Island (Tas.)
Cape Pillar (Tas.)
Tasman Peninsula (Tas.)
Hobart (Tas.)
Launceston (Tas.)
Georgetown (Tas.)
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