• Title
  Item 07: Cape Shank and Philipp Island (i.e. Cape Schanck and Phillip Island), 1863-1869 / Eugene Von Guerard
• Call number
  DL PXX 16
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1863-1869
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  825482
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (11 drawings in pencil (6), and pencil and crayon (5), mounted on alternate leaves) - sizes range from 30.5 x 23 cm. to 31 x 73.5 cm. in album 35.5 x 56 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
  11 drawings in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering) titled Von Guerard / Cape Shank and Philip Island
  
  (i.) Fortes Fortuna Junvat, Sir William Dixson (bookplate on front cover verso)
  f.1. No. 17, Cape Shank & Philipp Island, 1869 ... (title page) (i.e. Cape Schanck and Phillip Island)
  f.2. View from Log Bay to Cape Shanck (Schanck)
  f.3. Nobby, Philipp (Phillip) Island
  f.4. Pyramid Rock, Philipp (Phillip) Island south east
  f.5. Cape Shanck (Schanck)
  f.6. Philipp (Phillip) Island. South east coast from the big Lagoon. The Nobby
  f.7. Tea Tree Spring, Cape Shanck (Schanck)
  f.8. View to Western Port. Philipp (Phillip) Island
  f.9. Tea Tree Spring, Cape Shanck (Schanck)
  f.10. Phillip Island. St Agnes Head. Abend (Evening) 5(?)
  f.11. View across Phillip Island to Cape Shanck (Schanck)
  f.12. Trees on hillside
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  f. 2. comprises 2 separate sheets pasted together and folded.
  "Bound by Wallis" -- printed on reverse of marbled end paper
  Copy print available: DL PXX 16
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Drawings are titled and all are dated; f. 7 and f. 9 are signed. Some drawings have notes (in German). 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.
  Landscapes--Australia--Pictorial works.
  
• Topic
  trees
  rivers
  sawmills
  
• Place
  Phillip Island (Vic.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed - Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (16 April - 7 August, 2011)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE10887236

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