• Title
  Item 08: Sketches 1863-1866, 1870, 1877 / Eugene Von Guerard
• Call number
  DL PXX 17
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1864-1877
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  825485
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (17 drawings in pencil (11), and pencil and crayon (6), mounted on alternate leaves) - sizes range from 23.5 x 30 cm. to 31.5 x 58.5 cm. in album 43 x 64 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
  17 drawings in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering) titled Von Guerard / Sketches
  
  [i.] Fortes Fortuna Junvat, Sir William Dixson [bookplate on front cover verso. ]
  f. 1. Deep Creek Homestead [Glenara homestead, near Bulla, Vic.]
  f. 2. [Unidentified bush scene]
  f. 3. Beleura
  f. 4. Beleura. View to the Point with the Valley.
  f. 5. Fernshaw
  f. 6. Sunbury Camp. Jacksons Creek
  f. 7. Mr Taylors Haus [?house] near Keilor
  f. 8. Near Mr Wilsons Model Farm Keilor
  f. 9. Near Mr Ed Wilsons Model Farm, Keilor
  f. 10. Mount Macedon Fern Tree Gully
  f. 11. Ferntree Gully, Mt Macedon
  f. 12. Hanging Rocks near Woodend
  f. 13. Mount Macedon
  f. 14. Mr Walter Clark. Deep Creek
  f. 15. Deep Creek
  f. 16. View from Log Bay to Cape Schank
  f. 17. Deep Creek
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  ff.1-2, and f. 15 comprise irregular multiple sheets pasted together; f.1 and f. 15 are folded.
  "Bound by Wallis" -- printed on reverse of marbled end paper
  Copy print available: DL PXX 17
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  13 drawings are dated, and 16 are titled (1 in the hand of Sir William Dixson); all are unsigned. Some drawings have notes (in German).
• Subject
  Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Landscape drawing, Australian--19th century.
  
• Topic
  trees
  mountains
  farms
  camps
  
• Place
  Victoria
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sea of Dreams: the lure of Port Phillip Bay 1830-1914 - Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Applies to: f.4
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9864218

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