• Title
  Collection : Melbourne drawings, 1861-1901 / William Strutt
• Creator
  William Strutt, 1825-1915
• Call number
  DL PXX 10
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1861-1901
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs, Prints
• Reference code
  862083
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : DL PXX 10
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  2 drawings - 1 pencil, 1 pencil and wash - various sizes
  4 prints - engravings - various sizes
  1 reproduction - black & white
  15 photographs - sepia - various sizes
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1a Notes at Sea. 1862 [annotated sketch]
  Pencil, 5.6 cm × 8.8 cm (2 1/4'' × 3 1/2")
  
  f.1b Notes at Sea. 1862 [annotated sketch]
  Pencil, 5.6 cm × 8.8 cm (2 1/4'' × 3 1/2")
  
  f.1c Notes at Sea. 1862 [annotated sketch]
  Pencil, 5.6 cm × 8.8 cm (2 1/4'' × 3 1/2")
  
  f.1d Notes at Sea. 1862 [annotated sketch]
  Pencil, 5.6 cm × 4.9 cm (2 1/4" × 2")
  
  f.1e Notes at Sea. 1862 [annotated sketch]
  Pencil, 5.6 cm × 8.8 cm (2 1/4'' × 3 1/2")
  
  f.1f Notes at Sea. 1862 [annotated sketch]
  Pencil, 5.6 cm × 8.8 cm (2 1/4'' × 3 1/2")
  
  f.1g Notes at Sea. 1862 [annotated sketch]
  Pencil, 6.2 cm × 5.3 cm (2 1/2" × 2 1/8")
  
  f.2 Stockwhip - Australian - / Lash 17 feet long / Handle about length of lower arm
  Pencil and wash, 14.9 cm × 10 cm (5 7/8" × 4")
  
  f.3a From a Melbourne Illustrated Paper. 1887 [version of the Australian Coat of Arms]
  Engraving, 3.7 cm × 5.1 cm (1 1/2" × 2")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.3b From a Melbourne Illustrated Paper. 1887 [version of the Australian Coat of Arms]
  Engraving on irregularly shaped paper, 4.6 cm × 9.9 cm (1 3/4" × 3 7/8")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.3c [On verso] Fawkner's Printing Room - A Relic of Early Melbourne
  Newspaper clipping, 22 cm x 8 cm (8 5/8" x 3 1/8")
  
  f.3d [On verso] Fawkner's Printing Room - A Relic of Early Melbourne
  Newspaper clipping of engraving, 15 cm × 20 cm (5 7/8" × 7 7/8")
  Beneath view, on mount, in Strutt's handwriting: 'This Wood Cut possesses great interest'
  
  f.4a Opening of the First Legislative Council of Victoria, in Saint Patrick's Hall, Bourke-Street, by Lieutenant-Governor C.J. Latrobe, November 13, 1851. (Sketched by William Strutt) .....
  Half-tone reproduction of original drawing, 13.4 cm × 26.6 cm (5 1/4" × 10 1/2")
  
  f.4b First Victorian Legislature
  Newspaper clipping, 5 cm x 17 cm (2" x 6 5/8")
  On margin in Strutt's hand: 'This first Victorian Legislature came out in The Australasian May 18th 1901 - Duke and Duchess of Cornwall & York Visit '
  
  f.4c [On verso] Arrival of the Duke. Arrival of the Duchess
  Newspaper clipping at top of which is printed: 'May 18, 1901. The Australasian. 1099'
  Reproductions of 2 photographs, each 5.7 cm × 13.2 cm (2 1/4" × 5 1/4")
  
  f.5 The Bushrangers. / Royal Academy Exhibition 1887. / Attracted immense attention
  Photograph of original painting, 14 cm × 29 cm (5 1/2" × 11 3/8")
  Title is in Strutt's handwriting on mount. Original signed lower left corner 'W. Strutt'
  
  f.6 Officer & Men. Victorian Police Force / Melbourne 1861
  Enlarged print of f.9b, 18 cm × 14.9 cm (7 1/8" × 5 7/8")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.7 Mounted Troopers. Police Force. / Bush dress - / Melbourne
  Enlarged print of f.9a, 19.1 cm × 17.4 cm (7 1/2" × 6 7/8")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.8 Mounted Police Force (Full dress.) / Melbourne - Victoria
  Enlarged print of f.9c, 19.2 cm × 17.4 cm (7 1/2" × 6 7/8")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.9a The Police Force of the Colony of Victoria. Australia. Mounted & Foot / 1861. / Bush and Escort Service
  Photograph of original painting, 9.3 cm × 8.4 cm (3 5/8" × 3 1/4")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount. Original signed 'W. Strutt 1861'
  
  f.9b The Police Force of the Colony of Victoria. Australia. Mounted & Foot / 1861. Officer and Privates
  Photograph of original painting, 9.3 cm × 8.4 cm (3 5/8" × 3 1/4")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount. Original signed 'W. Strutt 1861'
  
  f.9c The Police Force of the Colony of Victoria. Australia. Mounted & Foot / 1861. Full dress
  Photograph of original painting, 9.3 cm × 8.4 cm (3 5/8" × 3 1/4")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount. Original signed 'W. Strutt 1861'
  
  f.10 Captain Dane & another Officer of the / Victorian Police Force. Melbourne / 1861
  Photograph, 22.9 cm × 19.2 cm (9" × 7 1/2")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.11 Melbourne Mounted Police / 1861 / Both these men had served as Cavalry soldiers in the Crimea
  Photograph, 23.1 cm × 19.7 cm (9 1/8" × 7 3/4")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.12 Mounted Police - Bush dress, / Melbourne, Victoria - 1861
  Photograph, 22.9 cm × 18.6 cm (9" × 7 3/8")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.13 Col. Pitt & Staff. Command & Volunteer Force. / Melbourne, Victoria / 1862
  Photograph, 24.1 cm × 19.8 cm (9 1/2" × 7 3/4")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.14 Capn. Limins / Sir Henry Barkly, Governor / Capn. Bancroft - 1862
  Photograph, 19.9 cm × 24.9 cm (7 7/8" × 9 3/4")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.15 Volunteer Cavalry - Melbourne
  Photograph, 19.7 cm × 24.9 cm (7 3/4" × 9 3/4")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.16 Melbourne Volunteers
  Photograph, 17.4 cm × 25.6 cm (6 7/8" × 10 1/8")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.17 Going to the Werribee Review - Melbourne - Victoria
  Photograph, 14.4 cm × 20.2 cm (5 5/8" × 8")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
  f.18 William Street. Melbourne / Bullock Drays Waiting at Stores
  Photograph, 14.9 cm × 22.3 cm (5 7/8" × 8 3/4")
  Caption in Strutt's handwriting on mount
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  None of the works are signed, nineteen are titled.
• Date note
  
  Twelve are dated.
• Name
  Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Council
  Victoria. Police Dept.
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  sketches
  stock handling
  whips
  bushrangers
  mounted police
  soldiers
  
• Place
  Melbourne (Vic.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE11910744

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