• Title
  Item 09: Winmera [i.e. Wimmera], Lake Hindmarsh etc. 1868 / Eugene Von Guerard
• Call number
  DL PXX 18
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1868
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  825487
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (18 drawings in pencil (9), and pencil and crayon (9) mounted on alternate leaves) - sizes range from 15.4 x 51 cm. to 36 x 91.8 cm. in album 40 x 63 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
  18 drawings in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering) titled Von Guerard / Winmera, Lake Hindmarsh etc.
  
  [i.] Fortes Fortuna Junvat, Sir William Dixson [bookplate on front cover verso]
  f. 1. “No. 20 / Wimmera. Arapiles. Lake Hindmarsh. North Grampians. 15 / & view of Ballarat. 1 / 1868–1869” [title page]
  f. 2. Grampians. Road through Roses Gap. Mt Zero in direction of Taylors Lake
  f. 3. Woodland [i.e. Woodlands]
  f. 4. Lake Hindmarsh
  f. 5. Ben Nevis f. Mr J Wilson station on the Wimmera near Crowland [sic]
  f. 6. Boga Lakes near Longernong
  f. 7. East South East view from the Arapiles
  f. 8. N.S.W. view from the Aripiles [i.e. Arapiles]
  f. 9. Ben Nevis from Eversley
  f. 10. Sheoaks in the flats near Longernong [i.e. Longerenong]
  f. 11. Woodland station of Mr John Wilson
  f. 12. Lake in the Grampians
  f. 13. Makenzie [i.e. Mackenzie] River Falls
  f. 14. Ben [Nevis] – [?] Wimmera – [?] Woodland
  f. 15. The Grampians and Victoria Ranges seen from NNW to SSE North Brighton
  f. 16. Wimmera 4 miles from Woodland – [?] the river
  f. 17. The Wimmera [River] entering in Lake Hindmarsh
  f. 18. Grocery store in Ballarat
  f. 19. Park scene, possibly at Ballarat
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  f. 2 comprised of 4 irregular sheets pasted together and folded; f.1 and f. 15 are folded.
  
  "Bound by Wallis" -- printed on reverse of marbled end paper
  
  Copy print available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:Album ID : 971109
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  15 drawings are dated, and 16 are titled; 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
  landscapes (artwork)
  trees
  mountains
  farms
  rivers
  
• Place
  Ballarat (Vic.)
  Wimmera (Vic.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE421801

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