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Title
Volume 07: Sketchbook XXVIII, No. 10 Australian. Nov.–Dec. 1857 / by Eugene von Guerard
Call number
DGB 16/vol. 7
Level of description
item
Date

1857
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
824700
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 sketchbook - 38 leaves - ca. 35 drawings on both sides of the paper, chiefly pen and ink and wash; some pencil, I col. ; various sizes in sketchbook 12.5 x 19 cm.
Scope and Content
Areas & subjects: Casterton, Mount Schanck, Mount Gambier, Nelson, Cape Bridgewater, Kangertong, Hexam, Barwon River

39 leaves. Numbered by von Guerard

Sketch on inside front cover
Part of the Victoria Ranges
View of the Grampians from the west side No. 3
f. 1. Manifold Veranda..
f. 2. Lake & station – Manifold – 28 Nov 57
f. 3. 28 Nov 57
Fort (?) futzuny zu Grampians no. 2
f. 4. Hopkins – 2 Dec 1857. 2 miles from Hexam
f. 5. Kangatong – 3 Dec.
f. 6. Victoria Ranges – Coolambool Creek – Trenches (?) station Monty Creek – 5 Dec 57.
f. 7. German notes – Mt William View of the Gramp (sic) near Hamilton No. 1 On the grange – 5 Dec 57. Blackwood
f. 8. (waterfall) – 7 Dec 1857
f. 9. Mr Youngs station near the Briyzans Creek – 7 Dec 57
f. 10. Creek Valle near Mountain – 8 Dec 57
f. 11. The Glenelg at Casterton – 8 Dec 57
f. 12. Border Inn taken from Cameron Street – only house in the township of Lindsay – 10 Dec 57
f. 13. Blackwood S.A. 7 m f. Mt Gambier
f. 14. 7 – Mt Gambier i. (2)
Gumtrees sûd Australien – blockwood
Also German inscription
f. 15. extinct volcano Mt Shank S.W. from Mt Gambier
f. 16. Mt Gambier … Veranda des Hotels (Mitchell) (?) – 11 Dec 57.
f. 17. cave at Mt Gambier – 11 Dec 57 [col.]
f. 18. interior of cave east of Mt Gambier – 11 Dec 57
f. 19. cave east of Mt Gambier S.Australia – 11 Dec 57
f. 20. Township of Nelson and Lake on the mouth of the Glenelg – 12 Dec 57
f. 21. Lake Monbong [?] – 13 Dec 57
f. 22. Lagunen nachr Makennans station. Road f. Mackinanns St[ation] to Portland
f. 23. Sand beach with rolling hills in background. Tracks of men in sand
Portland & Glenelg – 13 Dec 57
f. 24. sandy coast from the mouth of the Glenelg to Cape Bridgewater – 13 Dec 57 [col.]
f. 25. Darlots Creek – 14 Dec 57
f. 26. Kangatong – 16 Dec 57
f. 27. Kangatong on the Mayne – 16 Dec 57
f. 28. at the falls of the River Mayne at Kangatong – 16 Dec 57
f. 29. Kangatong – 17 Dec 57
f. 30. Hoods Station near Hexam on the Hopkins – 18 Dec 57
f. 31. P. MacArthurs … [plant] Schottishe Titel – 19 Dec 57.[col.]
f. 32. Near the Barwon Inn – 22 Dec 57.
f. 33. Barwonn River – 22 Dec 57.
f. 34. am Barwon 26 miles von Geelong – 22 Dec 57.
f. 35. Mt Disappointment Plenty Ranges – Heidelberg – 28 Dec 57

Inside back cover – inscribed: Melbourne 23 Nov 1857
Sketch of a well
Sketch of 2 young emus
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

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

Microfilm available at CY 614
Digital order no:Album ID : 823605
Signatures / Inscriptions

In German. Drawings are chiefly titled and dated; some have further descriptive notes. Inside cover 1857 Western district - Mt Gambier. Leaves are numbered by von Guerard.
Topic
mountains
trees
landscapes (artwork)
Place
Victoria
Mount Gambier (S. Aust.)
Western District (Vic)
Exhibited in

Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed - Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (16 April - 7 August, 2011)
Dixson 60 - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2013)