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Title
Volume 04: Sketchbook XXV, No. 7 Australian. Australia. May-June 1856, January 1857 / by Eugene von Guerard
Call number
DGB 16/vol. 4
Level of description
item
Date

1856-1857
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
824696
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 sketchbook - 40 drawings in pencil and pen and ink, on both sides of the paper. Loose drawing in pocket on inside of front cover - 10.6 x 18.5 cm.
Scope and Content
Areas & subjects: Warrnambool, Kanger-tong, Lake Ritchie, Mount Abrupt, Wimmera, Australian Aborigines, Mount Ararat

1-38, 1-14 leaves numbering by von Guerard (irregular)

Inside cover: colour drawing of unknown flag.
Loose drawing Kangutong … Vict. King Kanamaru – 26 June 1856
f. 1. Warnambool [i.e. Warrnambool] – 10 Mai 56
f. 2. sketch sea coast & boat
f. 3. Big Mary [Aboriginal woman], 2 swans, Lemington …
f. 4. Muster. Cuttingout the cattle Kangatong – 22 Mai 56.
f. 5. Durkarith – 27 Mai 56
f.. Victoria Ranges Mt Sturgeon Mt Abrupt. Forest camp of Mt Ritchie
f. 7. Lake Ritchie – 27 Mai 56
f. 8. Lake Ritchie. Dunkett
f. 9. Bald Hill – 29 Mai 56.
f. 10. … Mt Abrupt. – 29 Mai 56.
f. 11. Mt Sturgeon. Mt Napier. Lake Linlithgon [i.e. Linlithgow] Victoria Ranges – 29 Mai 56
f. 12. Mt Abrupt … – 30 Mai 56
f. 13. 30 Aug 56 Grotte Laguna Mt William
f. 14. Mr Muirhead’s Station – 13 Mai 56
f. 15. Murehead [Muirhead?] – the Gap – 1 Jun 56
f. 16. Mt William ... from Calder Mt Cole. Long-y-gerin Pyrenees – 2 Jun 56.
f. 17. Calder Station – 3 Jun 56
from Calder Mount William
f. 18. Mount William
f. 19. Pyrenees n Mt William – 3 Jun 56
3 Jun 56 Mt William rock & cairn
f. 20. Pyrenees von Varberg v. Mt William. Mt Ararat
f. 21. from Mr Calder’s station – 4 Jun 56
f. 22. 6 Jun 56 Mt Ararat f. Mr Campbell’s station
f. 23. Mount Ararat diggings
f. 24. on Mr Campbell’s cattle station Morkpilly – 6 Jun 56
f. 25. Mt William from Mt Dryden – Grampians North
f. 26. Wimmera Blow (?) – 7 Jun 56 - 8 Jun 56
f. 27. Wimmera Swamp – 9 Jun 56
f. 28. Wimmera – 8-9 Jun 56
f. 29. Carfrae Station (Aborigine) – 11 Jun 56
f. 30. … Brighton
f. 31. Lady Stuart [Aborigine] Carfrae Station – 11 Jun 56
f. 32. Lady Stuart [Aborigine]
f. 33. from Carfrae Station
f. 34. Nammon at Mt - – 16 Jun 56.
f. 35. Mt Eales [i.e. Eccles] Kangatong p. – 24 Jun 56
f. 36. Mt Eales [i.e. Eccles] no. 2 (Eccles)
f. 37. Mt Eales [i.e. Eccles] no. 2 (Eccles) – 24 Jun 56.
f. 38. Mr Mackneight [?] Station – 25 Jun 56. Dunmore near Gordon (?) Forest
f. 39. Dunmore – 25 Jun 56
f. 40. January 57 Brighton

f. 1-14 - Sketches amongst German notes:
- f. 1. January 1857. Brighton
- some sort of procession very dim, possibly Aborigines f. 11 verso
- Muirhead station f. 12
- Picture of pig passed out near bottle f. 13
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Description source

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

Microfilm available at CY 611
Digital order no:Album ID : 908625
Signatures / Inscriptions

In German. Drawings are titled and dated; some have further descriptive notes. Inside front cover has ink inscription: “1856. Kangatong. Grampians”, and pencil inscriptions of names etc.
Subject
Aboriginal Australians.
Adult Males
Adult Females
Topic
mountains
trees
landscapes (artwork)
portraits
Place
Victoria
South Australia
Adelaide (S. Aust.)
Exhibited in

Drawing in Australia : drawings, water-colours, pastels and collages from the 1770s to the 1980s - National Gallery of Australia. Applies to: f. 37
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