John Andrew Bonar sketchbooks of views in New South Wales and Queensland, with sketches made on his voyage between England and Australia in chiefly ca. 1857 and 1860

fonds

ca. 1857 and 1860

Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Prints

982582

2 volumes (106 watercolours and 1 photographic lithograph) - pen and link, and pencil sketches, some heightened with white - 14.2 x 24.2 cm and 23.5 x 29.8 cm

John Andrew Bonar, born in Edinburgh in 1835, son of Andrew Bonar, first travelled to Australia in 1857. His father was already in Australia working for the Australian Land Company. Bonar returned to England at the end of 1858. He came back to Australia in 1860 and in 1862 married the daughter of Ralph Edward Godschall Johnson, clerk to the Queensland Parliament. He died in England in 1874.

References:
The following paper entitled Thoughts on board the Cræsus [i.e. Croesus] of England and Australia, was read on board the steamship Cræsus, by Mr. Bonar, on Thursday, 17th February, 1854, and is printed at the desire of the passengers. Geelong, [Vic.] : Thomas Paterson, pr., [1854]

The Victorian historical magazine. Vol. XII. December 1927 No.2 'Letters from Australian pioneers by A.W. Greig' pp. 95-104

Biographical notes about John Andrew Bonar / lent for copying by John Godschall Johnson (PXn 784)

Sketchbooks include views in New South Wales, made during the artists's excursions to Australian Agricultural Company properties between 1857 and 1858, in Queensland between ca. 1857 and 1871 and sketches made on Bonar's second voyage to Australia in 1860

Item 01
Sketchbook of John Andrew Bonar who went to Australia in 1857

Item 02
Sketchbook of Andrew Bonar [1854, ca. 1857-1860, 1913]

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955, applies to works by John Andrew Bonar
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.

Thirteen drawings are dated between 1860 and 1869
Collection is dated from artist's period in Australia.