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Title
John Glover sketchbook No. 11, 1804, 1831
Call number
DGA 46
Level of description
item
Date

1804, 1831
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Watercolours
Reference code
825749
Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 948, frames 960-1043
Physical Description
1 album - 40 leaves, 120 sketches in pencil, ink, wash and watercolour on wove paper - various sizes in album, 18.5 x 27 cm.
Scope and Content
This sketchbook contains drawings of England, Maderia and Van Diemen’s Land.

DGA 46

Inside front cover - [Landscape near Hobart] - Along lower edge is written 'Arrives in the Tamar 18th Feby 1931 My Birthday - 64 years old' at upper left is 'No.11 I.G.' and at centre '1804 1831'
1 at Lichfield
2 [Landscape] and [Cloud study]
3 Greenwich Park
4 [Cloud study]
5 London from Greenwich Park
6 [Landscape]
7 [London?]
8 [Landscape]
9 Greenwich Hospital
10 [3 landscapes, two are numbered '5' and '6']
11 [3 landscapes]
12 [Hobart?]
13 Sutton Park
14 [2 landscapes, both probably of Hobart]
15 [Landscape]
16 [3 landscapes]
17 [2 landscapes, one titled] Ashbourne
18 [3 landscapes]
19 Wirksworth
20 Wirksworth
21 Wirksworth
22 [3 landscapes]
23 Wisterworth [?]
24 [3 landscapes]
25 Wirkworth [?]
26 [2 landscapes, numbered '22' and '23']
27 Matlock September 12 1804
28 [3 landscapes]
29 Matlock
30 [3 landscapes]
39 near Whitwell
38 [Landscape]
31 Matlock 1804
32 [2 landscapes, one titled] The Cataract on the South Esk
33 Matlock Church
34 [4 landscapes, two are titled] Nelson Point [and] Trafalgar Bay [and three are numbered '32', '33' and '34']
35 Church at Bredlington
36 [Landscape]
37 at Stedmere
40 [Landscape]
41 [Landscape]
42a Launceston from the West [Numbered '35']
42b From Mr. [-?-] Garden [Numbered '36']
42c North View of Launceston [Numbered '37']
43 Kirkham Abbey
44 [6 Landscapes, numbered 38-43; 39 titled] Ben Lomond [41 titled] Nelson Point
45 Kirkham Abbey
46 [Landscape]
47 Kirkham Abbey
48a The Oaks at the Cataract [Numbered '45']
48b The Cataract [Numbered '46']
49 Kirkham Abbey
50 [Figure studies, & studies of rowing & sailing boats]
51 [Studies of rowing & sailing boats]
52 Sherrif Hutton Castle
53 [Coastal profiles; parts titled] Island of Madeira 1830; part on the other side; King's Island. [Profile is in 4 parts numbered 47-50]
54 Sherrif Hutton Castle [inset at upper right of landscape]
55 [3 landscapes, 1 figure study. One landscape titled] Part of Madeira
56 Sherrif Hutton Castle
57 [2 landscapes, numbered '54' and '55''no.55 titled] Launceston
58 Sherrif Hutton Castle
59 [2 landscapes, each titled] South Esk River
60 A sweet subject for a Picture - a stinking smoking dunghill in a bright Summers Morning
61 Sherrif Hutton Castle
62 [Cloudy study]
63a South Esk [Numbered '58']
63b South Esk River [Numbered '59']
63c The Tamar [Numbered '60']
63d Ben Lomond from theTamar [Numbered '61']
64 [Incomplete cloud study]
65 [Israelites passing safety through Red Sea] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
66 [Cloud study] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
67 [Landscape] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
68 [Landscape] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
69 Lord Scarborough's Sandbank [?] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
70 [2 landscapes, 1 cloud study. Landscape numbered '63' and '64'] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
71 R. Ramsden's Esquire Carlton - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
72 [2 landscapes, 1 cloud study. Landscape numbered '65' and '66'] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
73 [5 landscapes, 4 are numbered 67-70. Title at lower left indecipherable] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
74 [Cloud study] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
75 Wadsworth - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
76 [2 landscapes, numbered '71' and '72'. No. 71 titled] Stevenson's Farm near Launceston - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
77 [Landscape] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
78 [Cloud study; at upper left is inset titled] Griffiths Farm - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
79 [3 landscapes, and study of cattle. Landscapes numbered 74 - 76; no.76 titled] Tea Trees - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
80 [2 landscapes, 1 cloud study. Landscapes numbered '77' and '78'. At lower right is written '40 leaves in this book. 80 sketches of Van Diemens Land', and at centre right is 'A.C. Talbot 1852 Van Diemen's Land'. - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
Inside back cover - [2 landscapes, numbered '79' and '80'] - Pages from here upside down in relation to preceeding pages
Access Conditions

Access via appointment
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Published Information
John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque / David Hansen. Hobart, Tasmania : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery/Art Exhibitions Australia, 2004 pp. 266-267
General note

Sketchbook is leather bound with remaining brass clasp detail, containing 40 leaves with approximately 120 sketches, and sketches also on the endpapers.
It appears Glover has created and English sketchbook up to his voyage then come back and filled up the gaps with Tasmanian views.

Reference:
John Glover Report for the Mitchell Library, 2004 / Max Staples (MLMSS 7835)
Digital order no:Album ID : 948053
Signatures / Inscriptions

Inside of front cover:
`No. 11’
`I.G’
1804-1831’
`Arrived in the Tamar 18th Febr. 1831 My birthday – 64 years old’

Inside rear cover:
`A.C. Talbot 1852 Van Diemen’s Land’
`80 sketches of Van Diemen’s Land’
over study of clouds and two pen and wash Australian scenes
Date note

All sketches are unsigned, only three are dated and many sketches untitled.
Conservation note

Preservation of this sketchbook was made possible through the generous support of Mr Robert Strauss MBE
Topic
sketchbooks
bridges
mountains
castles
rivers
waterfalls
landscapes (views)
cows
trees
horsedrawn carts
farms
city & town views
country scenes
churches
bush
Place
Matlock (Derbyshire, England)
Tasmania
England
London (England)
Tamar River (Tas.)
Launceston (Tas.)
Derbyshire (England)
Madeira (Madeira Islands)
Yorkshire (England)
Greenwich (London, England)
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