• Title
  Item 03: The Glenelg and Mt Gambier, 1857 / Eugene Von Guerard
• Call number
  DL PXX 14
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1857
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  825474
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (9 drawings in pencil, pen, ink, pencil and ink, and ink and wash) - sizes range from 26 x 50 cm. to 28 x 40 cm. in album 33 x 55.5 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.
• Scope and Content
  1 pencil, 1 ink, 2 pencil and ink, 2 pencil, ink and wash, 3 ink and wash drawings in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering) titled Von Guerard / The Glenelg and Mount Gambier
  
  [i.] Fortes Fortuna Junvat, William Dixson [bookplate on front cover verso]
  f. 1. ... Glenelg & Mt. Gambier, No. 10, 1857 ... [title page]
  f. 2. View from the summit of Mt Gambier and the Craters & Country to the South
  f. 3. Der obere Falls Vannon (Moonet). [The upper Fall of the Wannon]
  f. 4. Untere Vannon Fall [Lower Wannon Fall]
  f. 5. View of the River Glenelg against the current 4 to 5 miles fr. its mouth
  f. 6. Mr Kirby’s Station near Casterton – Valle [sic] of the Junction of the Rivers Wannon & Glenelg
  f. 7. Mt Gambier
  f. 8. Süs Wasser See Zwischen dem Glenelg & Cape Bridgewater [Freshwater lake between the Glenelg & Cape Bridgewater]
  f. 9. View of the River Glenelg in a South direction 4-5 miles fr. Its mouth
  f. 10. Vew from behind waterfall
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  "Bound by Wallis" [very faint]-- printed on reverse of marbled end paper
  Album has the remnants of a label (inside front cover) in the same position, and probably the same label (A.H. Spencer, Melbourne) as described for The Dandenong Ranges, 1855-1858 / Eugene von Guerard (DL PXX 13)
  Copy Print : DL PXX 14
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:Album ID : 936680
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Four of the drawings are signed, eight are dated and eight are titled. Titles are also in Sir William Dixson’s [?] hand, on mount at lower right.
• Subject
  Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Landscape drawing, Australian--19th century.
  
• Topic
  mountains
  rivers
  timber workers
  trees
  waterfalls
  
• Place
  Victoria
  Glenelg River (Vic.)
  Mount Gambier (S. Aust.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Colonial art of the Western District - Applies to: f. 2-10
  Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed - Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (April 2011 - August 2011)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE447530

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