• Title
  [South Australian drawings, ca. 1843-1879 / attributed to William Anderson Cawthorne]
• Creator
  W. A. Cawthorne, 1825-1897
• Call number
  PXD 39
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1843-1879
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  430867
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 31 x 75.9 cm. or smaller - 65 watercolour - 5 pencil drawings
  
• Scope and Content
  VOLUME 1
  1a. Currency Creek
  1b-c. [Contours of a landscape and seascape]
  2a. Flat Hills in the North containing Water reserves [1843 added in pencil]
  2b. Sectional view shewing [i.e. showing] water reserves
  3. Adelaide 1844
  4. Port Wakefield - St. Vincent's Gulf 1845
  5a. View in Hindmarsh Valley [Landscape with cattle and drover]
  5b. [Inlet. Pencil sketch with colour notes]
  6. Gladstone 1845
  7. Woody range near Government Farm S. Australia March 26/45 / F.K
  8a. On the Semaphore - 1845 [titled from missing mount]
  8b-d. [Drowning man. Two pencil & one watercolour sketch]
  9. "Angaston" [County of Light] SA 1845
  10. Native knocking down parrots with Waddy 1845
  11. Augustus at Glenleg/45 [ship off coastline]
  12. Camping on the River Light May 1846. [with named figures] C.B. Hare [and] W.A.C. / W.A.C [titled beneath mount] View on the "Light" - S. Australia May 1846
  13. Mt Lofty (from the hills) after sunset / W.A.C. 1847
  14. Entrance to the River Murray into the Lake 1847 [titled on image]
  15. Port Adelaide from the opposite side of the stream 1847 / W.A.C.
  16. Noarlunga 1850
  17. Boys, Crabbing - Jany. 21 1850. [below image] Rocks below Merino, Jany. 21 1850 [upside down below image]
  18. Port Wakefield 1850 [titled from missing mount]
  19. Clare 1850 S.A.
  20. Burra Creek 1851 the dark spots on each side of the creek - are the chimney pots Ul... - made of Cark [?] / W.A.C. [inscription on reverse obscured by backing]
  21. Our Station on the Murray 1853
  
  VOLUME 2
  22. Landing Timber for Squatter on coast of Spencer's Gulf 185? S.A.
  23. Regatta on the Bay 1855
  24. Native girls Port Lincoln 1856
  25a-b. Mt Torrens 1854 April / W.A.C.
  26. Near Houghton [1856]
  27. Penrill [County of Light] S.A. 26/5/1856 [inscription on image]
  28. Bushing - under Mt Jagged - S.A. early morning 1857 [with verse on back]
  29a. Gunna [i.e. Kaurna] shooting club Apr 5/58 [unfinished sketch]
  29b. [Sand-dune with lizards]
  30. Taking off wool - on coast Spencer's Gulf 1860
  31. Mouth of the Onkapinga [i.e. Onkaparinga] 1860 [Titled above image]
  32. On the Torrens 1862
  33. Shipping Sheep from Yorkes Peninsula 1863
  34. The "Almanda" Silver Mine 18 miles S.E. from Adelaide - from a sketch by W.A. Cawthorne Sept. 1868 [or 1862]. This sketch was sent back to Adelaide
  35. No.1 Preparing the net Good Friday Mar. 25/64
  36. No.3 Hauling in the Seine [net]
  37. Volunteer marches [or matches] at Kapunda Targets 1865
  38. Port Wakefield from the range looking E 1865
  39. The Apex of Mt Lofty from a sketch by W.A. Cawthorne (NB had no time to finish it) Oct 2/66 / W.A.C [With notes and titled on image]
  
  VOLUME 3
  40. No.2 Dukes Day - Febr 15 1869 [with pencil notes]
  41. Crossing of the Broughton S.A. Juy [i.e. July] 1874
  42. Dist View of Caltowie Jany 1874
  43. H.M.S. Barracouta Bay 1874
  44. The P & O Boat "PERA" off Glenelg - The first to inaugurate the New Mail Contract
  45. Sunset April 18/74
  46a. Lacepede Bay 1875 [pencil sketch]
  46b. [Bay]
  47. Aldinga coming up Semaphore June/75
  48. Sea effects Gulf St Vincent June/75
  49. Port Augusta Nov. 1876
  50. Range W side Spencer's Gulf S.A. Nov 1876
  51. Flinders Range Spencer's Gulf S.A. 1876. Horrock's Pass
  52. Port "Onkaparinga" shewing reef at low water - Self, Harry, &, Gus in our trap (horse "bob") Jany 1 - 1877, Wind S.E.
  53a. In the areas 1879 Nad is the dist spec. Blinman Riv giving to ...
  53b. [Vegetation. Unfinished pencil sketch]
  54. Tiers [bullock loaded with wood] / W.A.C. [Titled below image and dated 11 March /45 in pencil on reverse]
  55. [Men playing on fence] Apr 5/70
  56. [Three Aboriginal men at campsite] Apr 8/70
  57. [Funeral procession] Apr 18/70. "F.T. Bracey carried to death" [On back at upper right]
  58. [Two Aboriginal males on hill looking at ship in the distance] Apr 24/70
  59. [Two Aboriginal males at campfire] Apr 23/70
• System of arrangement
  Mainly chronological order
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The drawings initialled "W.A.C." and Nos. 2, 4, 7, 13-15, 25-26, and 32 appear to be in Cawthorne's hand when compared with Cawthorne's sketchbooks B 233 and B 234.
  The drawings are not mounted in strict numerical order.
  Many of the inscriptions are on the reverse of the drawings and are difficult to read due to the application of an adhesive backing at an unknown date.
  Most of the dates are in pencil and added by a later hand.
  Some of the drawings have illustrations on the reverse, and some have borders.
  Nos. 2a and 2b are drawn on the one sheet.
  No. 8a is titled from an inscription on accompanying mount that was discarded at an unknown date.
  Nos. 8b-d. are similar to drawings of "Mcfarline drowned", located in Watercolour drawings mainly of South Australian scenes / by William Anderson Cawthorne (PXD 40 Nos. 19a, 19b, and 20a).
  No. 15 is a panoramic view that was originally drawn on one sheet.
  The inscription on No. 17 is difficult to decipher.
  Nos. 18, 19, and 20 are drawn in three sections.
  No. 18 - An earlier card catalogue record states that "titled in blue pencil on backing sheet below decorative border". There is no evidence of this inscription or the border.
  Nos. 50 and 51 are companion drawings.
  No. 52 is damaged being torn from the centre to right hand corner.
  
  Copy Print : PXD 39 available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1023962
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most drawings are titled on the reverse.
  Seven drawings are initialled, "W.A.C"
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Corrections to nos 17,29a,36 supplied by Richard Merry, January 2010
• Name
  Aldinga (ship)
  Pera (Ship)
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bush
  camping
  cattle stations
  coasts
  drays
  fishing nets
  flocks (sheep)
  mining
  postal services
  rivers
  seascapes (artwork)
  sheep stations
  ships
  shooting (sports)
  timber workers
  city & town views
  transportation
  woodchop
  
• Place
  Adelaide (S. Aust.)
  Gladstone (S. Aust.)
  Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.)
  Onkaparinga River (S. Aust.)
  Port Adelaide (S. Aust.)
  Port Augusta (S. Aust.)
  South Australia
  Spencer Gulf (S. Aust.)
  

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