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Title
Item 06: Sketches in Victoria, 1862 / Eugene Von Guerard
Call number
PXC 310
Level of description
item
Date

1862
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
825496
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 album (34 drawings in pencil, some with colour pencil, some folded, mounted on alternate leaves) - sizes range from 28.5 x 44 cm. to 33 x 106 cm. in album 37 x 58 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
34 drawings in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering; title lettering on green morocco) titled Von Guerard / Sketches in Victoria

f.[i] “No. 16. Catalogue XII, XIII, XIV … / October … November 1862” [title page]
f. 1. Mt Disapointment [sic]
f. 2. Bend in the Goulburn east of Seymour
f. 3. Longwood
f. 4. View of the One Tree Hill between Benall & Wangaratta. Fuller [sic] Ranges
f. 5. Mr Louis Chevaliers Mill Beechworth
f. 6. Reedy Creek fall 2 or 3 miles from Beechworth
f. 7. The River Murray between Albury & Belvoir
f. 8. First view of the Mitta Mitta near the Mitta [?] River Punt
f. 9. Mitta Mitta
f. 10. Yabba [sic] Pattons [sic] station Mitta Mitta
f. 11. At the junction of the Snowy Creek with the Mitta Mitta
f. 12. Mitta Mitta … Brucke [Bridge]
f. 13. Mitta Mitta … Brucke [Bridge]
f. 14. Swamp on the Omeo Station
f. 15. On Prendergast Station
f. 16. Ranges 15-16 m[iles?] f[rom?] Prendergast’s St[ation] to the east
f. 17. Mount Kosciusco [sic]
f. 18. Top of Mt. Kosiusko [sic] from our camp
f. 19. Mt. Kosciusko [sic]
f. 20. on Tom Groggan [sic]
f. 21. Omeo … taken f[rom] the Police Paddock Creek & Mt Livingstone
f. 22. Lake Omeo 4 m[iles] distant. Nord.
f. 23. View of Mt Feathertop
f. 24. Mt Feathertop from the Stormy Ranges
f. 25. Valley of the Ovens River …
f. 26. Valley of the Ovens River and Morses Creek
f. 27. Fall of the Buffalo Ranges 3 m[iles] f[rom] Tannes [?] Creek
f. 28. Buffalo Ranges 7 m[iles from] Buckland Camp … Beechworth
f. 29. Buckland Camp
30. Yaccandandah [sic]
31. Punt over the Goulburne [sic] near Shepparton not far f[rom?] the River Murray
32. Brucke [bridge] u. [below?] Dampfmuble [water-mill?] … Wogonga [Wodonga?]
33. Mulwella. Macrae’s punt. Murray
34. Pyramid Hill & Mt Hope taken from the top of the Terrik Terrik hills
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

f. 4 comprises 3 sheets pasted together and folded; f. 18 comprises 2 sheets pasted together and folded.
"Bound by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, London" -- in gold lettering on reverse of cover at upper left
Digital order no:Album ID : 932046
Signatures / Inscriptions

All drawings are dated and titled; all are unsigned. Some drawings have notes (in German).
Subject
Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Art, Colonial--Australia.
Landscapes--Australia--Pictorial works.
Topic
mountains
rivers
farms
Place
Goulburn River (Vic.)
Feathertop, Mount (Vic.)
Kosciuszko, Mount (N.S.W.)
Mitta Mitta River Region (Vic.)
Exhibited in

Sweet damper and gossip: colonial sightings from the Goulburn and North-East - Benalla Art Gallery (17 December, 1993 - 12 June, 1994). Applies to: f. 4
Gallery re-opening display - Shepparton Art Gallery
Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed - Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria (April, 2011 - August, 2011)
Open Rosetta viewer
IE419307