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Title
Volume 05: Sketchbook XXVI, No. 8 Australian. Australia. Mar-Apr, 1857, Sep-Oct, 1859 / by Eugene von Guerard
Call number
DGB 16/vol. 5
Level of description
item
Date

1857, 1859
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
824697
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 sketchbook - 91 leaves, ca. 85 drawings: pencil, pen and ink, and wash, some watercolours: drawn on both sides of the paper - various sizes in sketchbook 10.4 x 15.6 cm
Scope and Content
Areas & subjects: Mount Elephant, Mount Shadwell, Apollo Bay, Lakes Corangamite & Colac, Cape Otway, Barwon

91 leaves numbering by von Guerard (irregular)

f. 1. sketch of small boats 57
f. 2. small line drawing Mount Gellibrand –
Mt Hesse & Mt Gellibrand [watercolour]
f. 3. Wardy Jellal River - Woady Yallock Creek at the Frenchman’s Inn
f. 4. Mt Meeton Aston (?) v. MacArthurs (?) Mile – Colac (top drawing) lower drawing Mt Geredon.
f. 5. mts on horizon - Flattop Hill, Mt Sturgeon, Mt Abrupt, Serra Ranges
- Mt William - Mt Cole, Pyrenen - Long-y-gerin
West North North East f. MacArthurs Hill – 13 Marz 57
f. 6. Mt William f MacArthurs Hill –13 Marz 57
f. 7. Mt Ararat Mt Lang-y-gerin Mt Cole – Australian Pyrenees von Mt MacArthur – 13 Marz 57.
f. 8. Basin Banks – 14 Marz 57
f. 9. Basin Bank Lake f MacNickles Station – Bullen Merrq – 14 Marz 57
f. 10. … Timboon or Camperdown - Basin Banks taken f McArthurs station – 15 Marz 57 Grasfeier von Mr Wares Station …
f. 11. … Basin Banks – 15 Marz 57. lower right. Emu – Mackimmans Hill
f. 12. Crater Mt Elephant – 16 Mar 57.
Mt Elephant
f. 13. 17 Mar 57 Mt Elephant F Mr J. Currie’s Station Larra
f. 14. very rough sketch Mt Elephant
f. 15. Mt Elephant north side
f. 16. N.N.E. Mt Elephant – 17 Mar 57
f. 17. Mt Elephant N.
f. 18. Lake Timboon Basin banks – Cherry Tree – 17 Mar 57
[watercolour of bush fire on horizon with dark plain in foreground] – Plaines (sic) - Mt Elephant n. Lake Karangomite [i.e. Corangamite] – 15 Mar 57
f. 19. Mt Elephant & Taylor’s River – 24 Mar 57
f. 20. Wooringrita [i.e. Wooriwyrite] Emu Creek or Taylor River – 24 Mar 57
f. 21. Emu Creek – 24 Mar 57
f. 22. No. 1 panorama n. Mt Shadwell – 24 Mar 57
West Sute [?] Mt Napier West nord West Mt Rouse
f. 23. No. 2 panorama n. Mt Shadwell – 24 Mar 57
line 1 Mt Sturgeon Mt Abrupt Serra Ranges
line 2 Mt Williams Mt Ararat N.N.O.
line 3 Mt Lang-y-gerin, Flattop Hill, Pyrenees N.O.
line 4 Ballarat Hills Booningong [i. e.Buninyong] Hill, Mt Elephant
f. 24. No. 3 panorama n. Mt Shadwell – 24 Mar 57
line 1 Mt Elephant Ost Clowen Hills, Green Hill Warion Hills
line 2 McArthur Hill. Cape Otway River. Mt Laura. Basin banks. Cape Otway Ranges Mt Noorat
line 3 Mt Noorat Cape Otway [?] Two sisters
line 4 Warrnambool Hill, Waldûng Waldûng Sûd
f. 25. Mount Shadwell – 25 Mar 57
f. 26. Two Sisters Mt Warrnambool f. Mount Shadwell
f. 27. Mt Noorat & Saltwater Creek – 25 Mar 57
f. 28. Mount Shadwell f the South – 25 Mar 57. A. Hamilton
f. 29. Emu Creek, Taylor River – 25 Mar 57
f. 30. f or towards Mount Noorat – 26 Mar 57.
f. 31. Mt Shadwell f Mt Noorat – 26 Mar 57
f. 32. Cherry tree on the lake of Kelambeet [i.e. Keilambete] – 26 Mar 57.
f. 33. Lake Kelambeet [i.e. Keilambete] – 26 Mar 57
Mr Thomsons house Kelambeet
f. 34. Mt Noorat f MacArthurs Hill – 27 Mar 57
f. 35. Peter MacArthurs station – 27 Mar 57
f. 36. [clouds over mountains]
f. 37. Dr Curdies Creek – 30 Mar 57 Tandarook
f. 38. Curdies Creek Tandarook – 30 Mar 57
f. 39. Curdies Creek Tandarook Hills – 31 Mar 57
f. 40. Marz 31 57 L. ELENGAMITA
[Fern grotto] .
f. 41. Dr Curdies Station Tandarook – 31 Mar 57.
f. 42. no. 1. Mt Myrtoon, L. Anapurt,Hills f the diggings
no. 2. L Karanigemeete [i.e.Corangamite] Mt Wiridgit
f. 43. no. 3. L Kanrangameete [i.e.Corangamite]
f. 44. no. 4. Warrian Hills L, Kanrangameete [i.e.Corangamite]
no. 5. Pormbeet, Mt Portndon, [?] ranges east f. cape Otway – view of Mt Laura to Lake Boorambeet [i.e. Burrumbeet] and Mt Perndon – 2 Apr 57
f. 45. Lake Boorambeet [i.e. Burrumbeet] p. – 2 Apr 57
f. 46. East C. Lake Pormbeet & Mt Laura – 3 Apr 57
f. 47. Stony Rises near the Pirron Tabook – 3 Apr 57
f. 48. Stony Rises near the Pirron Tabook [i.e. Pirron Yalloak] Creek – 3 Apr 57
f. 49. Auslaufe der Stony Rises in den Lake Corangamite – 4 Apr 57.
f. 50. Lake Corangamite Mt Warrion f Mt Merongemara [?] near Colac – 4 Apr 57.
f. 51. Mt Gellibrand Lake Colac and Colac – 4 Apr 57
f. 52. Anackies [sic] or Three Sisters
1. View from the plains Colac & Geelong Road – 5 Apr 57
2. Bonningong& Warrenaph Hill plains – Colac – 5 Apr 57
3. Mt Gellibrand.
f. 53. L. W. Anbnigs (?) ml Cap Otway Ranges
Mt Gellibrand – 5 Apr 57
f. 54. Barwon & Barwon Inn 25 Miles f Geelong
f. 55. Barwon – 5 Apr 57
f. 56. Barwon near Winchelsea – 27 Sep 59
f. 57. Panorama Mt Noorat McArthur Coles Wares Mt Elephant
f. 58. Horses grazing – Garangamite [i.e.Corangamite] Station – 3 Oct 59
f. 59. Gerangamete [i.e.Corangamite] Station – 3 Oct 59.
f. 60. (streambed) no label – 5 Oct 59
f. 61. [dense ferns] – 5 Oct 59
f. 62. [dense ferns] – 5 Oct 59
Wild Dogs Creek – 5 Oct 59
f. 63. [dense ferns near creek]– 5 Oct 59
f. 64. [dense trees & ferns near stream]– 5 Oct 59
f. 65. Sonnen pigel Apollo Bay
f. 66. [dense fern & trees near stream]
f. 67. [dense fern & trees near stream] – 7 Oct 59
f. 68. Creek Tranrenbrûcke – 8 Oct 59
f. 69. Cape Otway 1859
f. 70. Cape Otway 1859
lighthouse at Cape Otway
f. 71. rough sketch of trees, trees, river.
Aire River.
f. 72. pencil sketch – German label
f. 73. Cape Otway (cove) – 10 Oct 59
f. 74. Hauptasicht der Apollo Bay – Cape Otway – 11 Oct 59
f. 75. Apollo Bay (house under construction) – 13 Oct 59
f. 76. Apollo Bay– 13 Oct 59
f. 77. Apollo Bay (house under construction) – 13 Oct 59
f. 78. no label: trees near stream
sketch of house, with German inscription
f. 79. no label very rough sketch of hill near stream
f. 80. Woady Yallock – 31 Oct 59
2 full pages of writing in German, and pages of writing and sketches: telegraph office at Cape Otway – 3 Dec 58, clouds, lyre birds, portrait study.
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Published Information
Ruth Pullin ‘Eugene von Guérard: a journey through Victoria’s Western Plains’, in Lisa Byrne, Harriet Edquist, Laurene Vaughan, (eds), Designing Place: An Archeology of the Western District , Melbourne: RMIT University, Melbourne Books, 2010, pp. 112-125 makes references to Volume 05: Sketchbook XXVI, No. 8 Australian. Australia. Mar-Apr, 1857, Sep-Oct, 1859.
Description source

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

Microfilm available at CY 612
Digital order no:Album ID : 879160
Signatures / Inscriptions

In German. Drawings are chiefly titled and dated; some have further descriptive notes. Inside cover of sketchbook is inscribed Eugene de Guérard
1857 & 59 Western Plains Cape Otway and pencil list of place names. Most of the book is irregularly numbered by von Guerard.
Topic
mountains
trees
landscapes (artwork)
Place
Victoria
South Australia
Adelaide (S. Aust.)
Exhibited in

Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed - Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (16 April - 7 August, 2011)
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