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Title
Volume 08: Sketchbook XXIX, No. 11 Australian. New South Wales, Cape Schanck 1858-59 / by Eugene von Guerard
Call number
DGB 16/vol. 8
Level of description
item
Date

1858-1859
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
824703
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 sketchbook - 36 leaves (drawings in pencil, some col. pencil, pen and ink, and wash, on both sides of the paper - leaves are of different coloured papers) ; various sizes in album 13 x 18.5 cm.
Scope and Content
Areas & subjects: Cape Schanck, Schnapper Point, Western Port Wilsons Promontory, Pigeon House Mountains, Jervis Bay, Botanical Gardens (Sydney), Cooks River, Botany Bay, Entrance to Sydney Harbour, Botany

37 leaves, 1-33 numbered by von Guerard

f. 1. Cape Shank station – 15 Feb 58.
f. 2. Tea tree gully at Cape Shank – 15 Feb 58
f. 3. view from Schnapper Point to Arthurs sit [Seat?] [&?] Mt Martha – 15 Feb 58
f. 4. Creek un der Boky Beach [rocky?] Cape Shank station – 15 Feb
f. 5. Cape Shank n.d. Sandy Beach – 15 Feb 1858
f. 6. sandy beach near Cape Shank – 15 Feb [col.]
f. 7. Pafsatt Yelsen (?) an der sandy beach near Cape Shank – 15 Feb 58
f. 8. Tea Tree Gully, Cape Shank station – 15 Feb 58
f. 9. Boky [rocky?] beach near Cape Shank – 15 Feb
f. 10. Tea Tree in a gully at Cape Shank
f. 11. old bridge Blackwoods Honeysuckle Gum tree Station – 15 Feb 58
f. 12. cups & saucers – 16 Feb 58
f. 13. cups & saucers – 16 Feb 58
f. 14. Honysucle (honeysuckle?) Nine Mile Beach – 17 Feb 58
f. 15. Western Port– 15 Feb 58
verso Western Port – 15 Feb 58
f. 16. One of the splendit honysucle (honeysuckle?) trees
near the Cony [?] … Nine Miles Beach – 17 Feb 58
f. 17. Part of the east coast of N.S.W
f. 18. Cape Wilson or Wilsons Promontory Victoria … Reise Nach Sydney 1859
verso … Wilsons Promontory
f. 19. Reise Nach Sydney – Kû N.S.W. – 19 Nov.
verso Pigeonhouse Kûsle v. N.S.W. Reise Nach Sydney 19 Nov. 59
f. 20. Pigeonhouse Kûsle v. N.S.W. Reise Nach Sydney 19 Nov. 59
f. 21. Jervis Bay Cape Perpendicular – 19 Nov. 1859
f. 22. Morton Bay Fig Tree Botanical Garden in Sydney
f. 23. Cook River near Canterbury 7 m. f. Sydney – 1 Dec 59
f. 24. Cups and saucers near Canterbury 7-8 [m?] f Sydney on the Cook River – 1 Dec. 59.
f. 25. … Newtown Parramatta Railway – 1 Dec. 59
f. 26. … Heads … Botany Bay – 30 Nov 1859.
f. 27. Entrance to Botany Bay – 30 Nov 59
f. 28. Swamp oak Cook River – 1 Dec
f. 29. Entrance to Port Jackson south head – 2 Dec 59
f. 30. North head. North head near the lighthouse – 2 Dec 59
f. 31. [drawing of plants] Great Staghorn fern N.S.W. Cycad?/ Zamia, Botany Bay N.S.W
f. 32. Norfolk Island [pine]– 15 Dec 59
verso Sydney – 24 Dec 59. [Bamboo]
f. 33. Sydney South Head
f. 34. Cape Schank & Pulpit Rock Bûckreise v. Sydney – 23 Dec 1859
Endpaper: .... Cape Schank
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wale
Description source

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

Microfilm copy available at CY 615
Digital order no:Album ID : 931204
Eugene von Guérard : Sydney Heads 1865 / [Helen Campbell] - Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1 February - 25 April 1999http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1956424
Signatures / Inscriptions

In German. Drawings are chiefly titled and dated; some have further descriptive notes. Inscription in ink on inside front cover: “1858-59 New South Wales. Cape Shank”. Leaves are numbered by von Guerard.
Topic
mountains
trees
landscapes (artwork)
Place
Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
Sydney Heads (N.S.W.)
Wilsons Promontory (Vic.)
Exhibited in

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