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Title
Volume 14a: Sketchbook XXXVI, No. 18 Australian, 1865-70, 1872 / by Eugene von Guerard
Call number
DGB 16/vol. 14a
Level of description
item
Date

1865-1872
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Drawings
Reference code
825443
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 sketchbook - 94 leaves (74 leaves of drawings in pencil, pen and ink, and wash: 3 col. - drawn on both sides of the paper; 19 leaves of manuscript) ; various sizes, in album 10 x 17 cm.
Scope and Content
Areas & subjects: Daylesford, Mount Emu, Stoneleigh Station, Glenara (Mr Walter Clark’s Station), Deep Creek, Ben Nevis, Pleasant Creek, Taylor's Creek, Arapiles, Gramians, Phillip Island, Schnapper Point

[93] leaves, 1-50 partially and irregularly numbered by von Guerard

f. 1. Mt Macedon 11 Mai 1865
f. 2. Roman Catholic Daylesford Mai 1865
f. 3. Spring Creek bei Daylesford 20 Mai 1865
page of notes in German
f. 4. [2 female figures walking with dog in bush, in wind] April 1867
f. 5. Mt Emu Mr Ph Russells Carngham Station 18 Mai 1866
f. 6. Mr Lowries Station 19 Mai 1866 [small sketch of rocks, colour]
f. 7. Mr Lowries Station 19 Mai 1866
f. 8. Grampian
verso [house]
f. 9. Stoneleigh Mr Lewis station. Grampian
f. 10. Shipton[?] 22 Mai 66
f. 11. from Arundel 28 Oct 1866
f. 12. Mr MacDonnals vineyard … Geelong
f. 13. Lava[?] Deep Creek 12 Dec 1866 (col.)
f. 14. Deep Creek 13.12.66
f. 15. Glenara Mr Walter Clark’s station view view Southward Deep Creek 16 Dec 66
f. 16. Little valley near the Deep Creek Mt Macedon in the distance 17 Sept 67
f. 17. Valley of the Pyrenon 23 [?Septem]ber 68
f. 18. [large house in country]
f. 19. woodland 25 [?Septem]ber 68
f. 20. Mr John Wilson; s garden fountain
woodland 30 Sept 68
f. 21. [trees]
f. 22. Ben Nevis near Eversly 1 Oct 68
f. 22. Ben Nevis N. 2.
f. 23. One tree hill Good morning Hill Mt Ararat. From the Reef
f. 24. From the Black Ranges near Stawell 4 Oct 1868
f. 25. Black Range Stawell 4 Oct 68
f. 26. Pleasant Creek the Reef 4 Oct 68
f. 27. On the swamp near the Woodlands at Longerenong 8 Oct 68
f. 28. … Pleasant Creek 4 Oct 68
verso Mt Wilson
f. 29. distant bl.ue hills seen from B[?] to the S.S.W.
f. 30. Longerenong Mr Samuel Wilsons Bild (?)
unnumbered leaf [house & trees] [cows in paddock]
verso Taylors Lake (Boga) Nord este du Grampians Mt Zero
f. 31. Longerenong
unnumbered leaf N Brighton 11 Oct 68 and Longerenong [buildings]
f. 32. Arapiles near 15 Oct 68
f. 33. Arapiles from the Southwest Side St Mary’s Lake
f. 34. Near St Mary’s Lake 14-15 Oct 68
f. 35. Arapiles 14 Oct 68 (col.)
f. 36. Arapiles 14 Oct 68
f. 37. pines 11/2 mile f McDonnald House St Mary 15 Oct 68
f. 38. Vectis 18 Oct 68
f. 39. The Arapiles from the southwest side 17 Oct 68
no f. 40.
f. 41. View of the Wimmera at Antwerp 20 Oct 68
f. 42. Nach Mr Edols station Tallavera 22 Oct
f. 43. … 22 Oct 68
no f. 44.
f. 45. Lagune Grampians (2)
f. 46. Mr Carters station Rosebrook 27 Oct 68
f. 47. Berge y … 27 Oct
f. 48. Rosebrook 27 Oct 68
f. 49. Roses Gap 28 Oct 68
f. 50. Roses Gap 28 Oct 68
f. 51. Woodland John Wilson’s house 1868 Ph[illip] island
verso Part of view … coast. Phillip Island
f. 52. Woodland 29 Oct 1868
f. 53. [trees]
verso From Philipp Island to French Island 12 Dec 69
f. 54. Red Bluff 13 Oct 69
verso Tortois[e] Point
f. 55. [clouds over mts] 21 Oct 69
f. 56. Frank Station 11 Dec 69
Philipp Island to west 12 Dec 69
f. 58. Philipp Island
f. 59. From the Quoin Philipps Island 16 Dec 69
f. 60. View from Mr Metcalfes veranda 19 Dec 69
f. 61. [Trees] 17 Dec 69
f. 62. Cape Woolamay [i.e. Woolamai] Phillip Island near Port Albert 18 Dec 69
f. 63. Cape Woolamay [i.e. Woolamai] Phillip Island 18 Dec 69
Cape Woolamay [i.e. Woolamai] 18 Dec 69
f. 64. Cape Woolamay [i.e. Woolamai] 18 Dec 69
f. 65. Cape Woolamay [i.e. Woolamai] 18 Dec 69
f. 66. Tortois[e] Island in Western Port von Phillip Island 20 Dec 69
f. 67. Mussel Rock Western Port Phillip Island 19 Dec 69
f. 68. Baleura [i.e. Beleura] 16 Jan 70
verso Schnapper Point 17 Jan 70
f. 69. View of Beleura to the Point
f. 70. [Sassafrass] Gully Dandenong Ranges
f. 71. [sketches leaves, nude]
f. 72. [mountains]
f. 73. Picnic Point 17 Nov
f. 76. The Cement Works Schnapper Point Port Phillip Jan 72

22 pages front and back in German – place names appear frequently.
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

Numbered originally by von Guerard, and renumbered in Mitchell Library. Most drawings cover 2 pages of notebook.

Microfilm available at CY 622
Digital order no:Album ID : 931203
Signatures / Inscriptions

In German. Drawings are chiefly titled and dated; some have further descriptive notes. Inscribed inside front cover 1867-68-69, 1870 and list of place names and dates.
Topic
mountains
trees
landscapes (artwork)
homesteads
camps
Place
Victoria
Arapiles, Mount (Vic.)
Phillip Island (Vic.)
Schnapper Point (Vic.)
Exhibited in

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