Squatter's residence on the Broken River, Victoria, 1845-53 / possibly by E.L. Bateman

DG SV2B/2

fonds

1845-1853

Graphic Materials, Drawings

834044

1 drawing - pencil, touched with white, on tinted paper - 18.7 x 27.3 cm pasted on board 29.8 x 38.4 cm

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

Title as above lettered in pencil on mount below sketch, and also in ink on cut out mount. At lower right in pencil is 'Mr. Turnbull's bush home. Seven Creeks'. Thomas Turnbull was at Faithfull's Creek, near Seven Creeks (a branch of Broken River) Euroa from May 1845 to October 1853, and at Broken Creek, Benalla, January 1855 to April 1873 (see Billis & Kenyon, 'Pastoral pioneers of Port Phillip', Melbourne, 1932.

Framer's label from previous frame (not received) now pasted to back of mount.

Keyword subjects:
Turnbull, Thomas (residence)
Broken River District (Vic.)

Unsigned, possibly by E.L. Bateman (compare with reproductions of three sketches in A. Gross, 'Charles Joseph La Trobe', Melbourne, 1956 (opposite pages 5 and 94).