• Title
  Views, mainly of Victoria, c.1859 - 1863 / Eugene Von Guerard
• Creator
  Eugen von Guérard, 1811-1901
• Call number
  DGD 24
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1859-1863
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  825467
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 volumes - 16 mounted drawings in ink and wash, 1 with watercolour - sizes range from 33.5 x 50 cm. to 44.5 x 89.5 cm. in boxes 96 x 52 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Eugene von Guerard, painter and teacher, was born in November 1811 in Vienna. He studied in Dusseldorf and travelled in Germany and Italy before arriving in Victoria in 1852. He visited the Ballarat goldfields and later travelled in Victoria, N.S.W, S.A. and Tas. In 1870 he was appointed Curator of the National Gallery of Victoria and Principal of its Art School where he remained until his retirement in 1881.
• Collection history
  Sir William Dixson acquired this collection of drawings from the Australian bookseller, Albert Henry Spencer. Spencer sent the drawings to Dixson for his approval from London in 1937. Reference: Albert Henry Spencer, letters to Sir William Dixson, invoices, receipts etc., 2 September to 28 July 1952 (DLADD 889/no. 73)
• Scope and Content
  Volume 1
  f. 1. Basin Banks. Lake Timboon. 1859
  f. 2. [View between Benalla and Wangaratta]
  f. 3. [View from Snakey Point]
  f. 4. [The Lakes, 1859 (The Grampians)]
  f. 5. Tower Hill [Koroit or Tower Hill W. District]
  f. 6. Crater of Mount Ecles [i.e. Eccles] West of Victoria
  f. 7. Lal Lal Falls near Ballarat
  f. 8. [Source of Wanscon [Wannon ?] River and summit of Mt Abrupt. 1862]
  
  Volume 2
  f. 9. Yarra Rapids 50-60 m. f Melbourne
  f. 10. Schnapper Point after sunset [Port Phillip Bay Melbourne]
  f. 11. Terrick Terricks 1863
  f. 12. [Gippsland 1863]
  f. 13. [Road to Crooked River Diggings 1862 (Mount Kosciusko seen from the north west)]
  f. 14. Dobson’s Gully Dandenong Ranges 8-27 May 1859
  f. 15. View of the Wannon Springs and Mount Abrupt, seen from the Gap Hill near Mt William
  f. 16. [Youyans (i.e. You Yangs) Mts]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  f. 4. The Lakes, 1859 [The Grampians] previously identified by Edward Comstock, 1970 as The Lakes, 1859 [Serra Range]
  f. 12. Gippsland 1863 previously identified by Edward Comstock, 1970 as Grampian Range W District 1863 by Edward Comstock, 1970
  
  Copy Print available at DGD 24
  Digital order no:Album ID : 940995
  f. 12. Gippsland 1863. Another version of this drawing titled `Mr King's Station' is held in the Alexander Turnbull Library. The finished oil painting titled `Mr John King's Station' is held in a private collection.
  f. 16. Youyans [You Yangs] Mts is a sketch for the oil painting `Bushfire 1859' also known as Bushfire between Mt Elephant and Timboon (Camperdown) 1859 held at the Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria. Gift of Lady Currie in memory of her husband, the late Sir Alan Currie, 1948 (1949.1)
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  All drawings except f. 9 are signed, most are dated, ff. 1; 5-7; 9; 11; 14-15 are titled by the artist. Titles in parentheses are taken from pencil inscriptions on former mounts. ff. 2-5; 8; 10; 16 were possibly titled by Sir William Dixson.
• Subject
  Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Landscape drawing, Australian--19th century.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (artwork)
  coasts
  lakes
  sunrises & sunsets
  waterfalls
  
• Place
  Victoria
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Colonial art of the Western District - Applies to: ff. 4, 5, 6, 8, 15
  Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed - Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (April 2011 - August 2011). Applies to: DGD 24/nos. 1 - 2, 4 - 9, 16
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE447140

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