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Title
Volume 11: Sketchbook XXXII, No. 13-14 Australian. 1860-1861 / by Eugene von Guerard
Call number
DGB 16/vol. 11
Level of description
item
Date

1862
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
825421
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 sketchbook - 53 leaves - chiefly pencil drawings, with some ink and some wash: drawn on both sides of the paper ; various sizes, in album 11 x 18 cm.
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Guerard accompanied Alfred William Howitt’s prospecting expedition in the Gippsland area in 1860-61.
Scope and Content
Areas & subjects: Gippsland, Sale, etc. on Alfred Howitt's expedition (includes sketches of some of Howitt's camps

53 leaves numbered by von Guerard

f. 1. Gippsland Tower 60 Mailman’s Creek 15 Nov 60
f. 2. Snakes Ridge
f. 3. Mt Bow Bow y Snakes Ridge 20 Nov 60
f. 4. Mt Bow Bow f the Plains … 20 Nov 60
verso 25 Nov Bushy Park canoe of the Aborigines
f. 5. Sale 21 Nov 60 (church)
Enterprise (small steam boat)
f. 6. McWilliam [McMill…?] 22 Nov 60
f. 7. McAlister – Foster 25 Nov 60
Guano Creek 26 Nov 60
f. 8. Castall [?] Hill from the top of Mt Pleasant 28 Nov 60
f. 9. 28 Nov 60 E.N.E. from Mt Pleasant
f. 10. Grant Hill 3 m. from Dorga on the Dorga 29 Nov 1860
f. 11. Highland man’s [?] Nob 29 Nov 60
f. 11. [rpt] Hillemans [?] Nobb Dorga Valley 29 Nov 60
Granit Highlemans [?] hill
12. Highlimans [?] hill
f. 13. Wongungarra near Camp XV 3 Dec 60 smaller sketch Inveny Bluff
f. 14. Mt Louisa in the valley of the Wonugarra river 6-7 Dec 1860
f. 15. / f. 16. Mt de Guerard in Gipplsland Victoria 6.12.60
f. 17. Alfred Howitts Prospecting Expedition 7.12.60
Prospecting party no. 2 Camp on the Wonangarra [Wonangatta]
f. 18. View on the Wonangatta with the mountains between this and the Wonangarra [Wongungarra] 8 Dec 60
f. 19. Wonangatta 8 Dec 60
f. 20. Wonangatta 8 Dec 60
f. 21.A. Buchan Cove (Eingasy Liste 45 A) 10 Jan 61
f. 21. Camp XVII on the Wonangatta 10 Dec 60
Sheep yard on wet day
f. 22. Valley of the Wonangatta at the junction with the Maroka River (2) 11 Dec 60
f. 23. -- -- y Mt Kent N.N.W. Mt Buffalo 12 Dec 60
f. 24. Snowy Bluff 14 Dec 60
Apsel Bon (?) (tree) 21 Dec 60
f. 25. -- Mt Garibaldi 19 Dec 60
f. 26. Nacht lager 14-15 Dec 60
f. 27. Very likely the Bogong Ranges from Snowy Bluff or Mt Garibaldi 17 Dec 60
Malakoff & Bedon
Verso … Peppermint [tree] 17 Dec 60
f. 28. [tree with very twisted boughs]
f. 29. [trees)
Buchan River 10.1.61
f. 30. Wonnangatta 18 Dec 60
f. 31. Snowy Bluff (2) 19 Dec 60
f. 32. Mt Kent & part of the Snowy Bluff
f. 33. Near camp XVII 21 Dec 60
verso Pulpit Rock
f. 34. … Pulpit … 21 Dec 60
f. 35. Near camp XVII Return to Quakmuger 23 Dec 60
f. 36. Mt Valentia – Junction Inn 24 Dec 60
f. 36. [rpt] small sketch Mt Castle Hill 24 Dec 60
Mt Valentia Red Bank Junction 24 Dec 60
f. 37. Bushy Park Family Inn 28 Dec 60
Gippsland Avon - 29 Dec 60
f. 38. Clyde Bank Avon Mr Robert Thomsons station 30 Dec 60
f. 39. Clyde Bank Tea Tree Scrub garden of Mr Robert Manelin (?)30 Dec 60
f. 40. Part of Lake Wellington to the east from Boldens station 1-2 Jan 61
verso station v Mr Bolden Lake Wellington 2 Jan 61
f. 41. West of Lake Wellington Rosenith 2 Jan 61
f. 42. Mt Ballantine House 2 Jan 61
f. 43. J. Smith’s Esq station of Lindinaw 14 Jan 1861
f. 44. Nabron (seated male child aboriginal) refers to 21A. Buchan River 10 Jan
f. 45. Mountains N,E. of Lake King Gippsland (2) Jan 61
f. 46. Nicholson River Gippsland
f. 47. Mt Mac Claude 8 Jan 61
f. 48. Valley of the Buchan (Serra Mts)
f. 49. Gippsland 17 Jan 61
verso … Yan Yean 1860
f. 51. Mt Disappointment – Yan Yean Reservoir 26 Jan 61
f. 52. Yan Yean
f. 53. Yan Yean Reservoir
last page Vom 14 Nov Gei 18 Jan 1861
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

Most drawings cover 2 pages of notebook.

Microfilm available at CY 618
Digital order no:Album ID : 934385
Signatures / Inscriptions

In German. Drawings are chiefly titled and dated; some have further descriptive notes. Inscribed inside front cover in ink: 1860 Gippsland Yan Yean ; and pencil: Gippsland mit Alfred Howitt & Yan Yean.
Name
Howitt, A. W. (Alfred William), 1830-1908
Subject
Aboriginal Australians.
Topic
mountains
trees
landscapes (artwork)
monuments & memorials
expeditions
camps
Place
Victoria
Gippsland (Vic.)
Exhibited in

Sweet damper and gossip: colonial sightings from the Goulburn and North-East - Benalla Art Gallery (17 December, 1993 - 12 June, 1994)
Eugen von Guerard - Australian National Gallery
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