• Title
  [Views of Victoria and South Australia, ca. 1842-1882 / drawings attributed to William Anderson Cawthorne]
• Creator
  W. A. Cawthorne, 1825-1897
• Call number
  PX*D 30
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1846-1850, 1854, 1856, 1862, 1882
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  430868
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 27.7 x 35.6 cm. or smaller - 31 watercolour - 1 pencil drawings
  
• Scope and Content
  VOLUME 1 (Nos. 1 to 16b)
  1a. Pt Phillip Heads Cups and Saucers [titled on work]
  1b. [Three Aboriginal men. Part of a pencil sketch]
  2. Queenscliffe (Victoria) entrance Pt. Phillip heads [titled below work]
  3. Reaping Hook Hill from the S. [titled on mount] Frome / 42 [at lower right of image]
  4. Crossing the Neck of the Lake Torrens / Horrocks 1846
  5. View off High Range - of "Mt Liverpool Plains" Extensive Scrub. Pt. Lincoln. Dec. 1848 [titled on mount]. View of expanse of scrub off high range Pt. Lincoln Dec. 1848 [inscribed on reverse]
  6. Gawler Ponds under Mt Gawler Pt Lincoln 1848
  7. Kangaroo Hunting: Liverpool Plains P. Lincoln Dec. 1848 [titled on mount]. Hunting Kangaroo Liverpool Plains Pt. Lincoln Dec. 1849 [on reverse]
  8. Cross-cut 31 fathoms Pt. Lincoln Mine Dec. 1848 [on mount]. Cross-cut 31.f. Pt Lincoln Dec. 1849 [on reverse]
  9a. Upper Shaft. Pt. Lincoln Mine Dec. 1848
  9b. Port Willunga - Inland view [drawing is missing]
  10. Murder of Biddel & two others by the Pt Lincoln Natives 1848
  11a. Entrance to Lk. [i.e. Lake] Albert
  11b. Shores of Lake Victoria. The She Oak scenery
  11c. View of Aberdeen (from Redruth) Burra Burra Dec. 1850 [drawing is missing]
  12. Koringa [in ink] 1847 [in pencil]
  13. Koringa [in ink] 1850 [in pencil]
  14a. Watervale Dec: 1850
  14b. View of Port Elliot. Native fishing [view is missing]
  15a. Penwortham. Dec. 1850
  15b. Ornament of Swan's down [pencil sketch of Aboriginal man, with detail of torso and "feather"]
  16a. View of the Burra from the range above Clare - 1854 [in pencil]
  16b. [Flag. Unfinished pencil sketch]
  VOLUME 2 (Nos. 17 to 32)
  17a. Hill River The Camel's hump 1850 [in upper left] Hill Riv [lower centre] Hill River [on mount]
  17b. Morning on the Gulf - sleeping - Hancock's [or Hankok's] St. [missing]
  18a. View from the Bluff (W.). Western Is. [i.e. the Bluff, Victor Harbour]
  18b. The Creek - Kangaroo Is. [missing]
  19. Sandy Point Gulf St. Vincent
  20. View of the "Goolwa" looking S. - S. end of Hindmarsh Is.
  21. Stump of a Tree in River Torrens [in ink] washed into this position by the floods [in pencil]
  22. Cape Donnington. Pt Lincoln (morning) [on mount] / W.A.C. [at lower right on image]. Bird Island off Bennington Pt. Lincoln (morning) Dec. 8. 1848 [on reverse]
  23. Passmore River in the N. [missing]
  24. Grass Tree Scrub SA [missing]
  25. Water Hole River Torrens [missing]
  26a. View of the N.W. from Flinders Range
  26b. [Conflict. European men on horse with guns pointed at Aborigines. Unfinished pencil & watercolour sketches]
  27. On the Torrens Feb. 1856 [watercolour mounted on board]
  28a. Rocky Islet Encounter Bay 1862 [titled in pencil on reverse] / W.A.C.
  28b. Railway. Beachport. S.A.
  29. Kaizer Stuhl, Tanunda SA 1882
  30. Cockle Beach SA / W.A.C.
  31. Mona Creek near Kingston SA
  32. [Landscape with man on horse on road] / W.A.C.
• System of arrangement
  Chronological order
• General note
  
  Many of the drawings appear to have been part of a collection or album as they are mounted on sheets of paper with decorative borders and are of similar size.
  The inscriptions on the drawings are in different handwriting styles.
  Some of the drawings have illustrations on the reverse.
  No. 1 is similar to "Black Rock Hill, from the North. 1843" No. 12 of the Royal Empire Society's sketches by Edward Charles Frome (FM4/217) suggesting that one is a copy of the other. However, the style of "Reaping Hook Hill" is very similar to that of a watercolour initialled "W.A.C." in the Mitchell Library.
  No. 2 is probably drawn by W.A. Cawthorne as the inscription appears to be in Cawthorne's manuscript hand - E.I. 27/5/1985
  Nos. 1a-b, 2, and 15b are titled on the same sheet as the drawing.
  Nos. 9b, 11c, 14b, 17b, 18b, 23, 24, and 25 are missing.
  Nos. 11a and b are drawn on the one sheet.
  Nos. 17 and 19 are watermarked.
  Nos. 20 and 21 have a decorative border on the reverse in preparation for the mounting of a drawing.
  Nos. 27-31 are mounted on cardboard, are finished with a glaze, and have hand-written inscriptions in pencil on the reverse.
  No. 32 is mounted on cardboard.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823549
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most drawings are titled and dated below image on mount. Some drawings have an additional title on the reverse.
  Three drawings are initialled, "W.A.C"
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  No. 31 Almost certainly "Maria Creek", Kingston-SE, SA, to distinguish from Kingston on Murray. The creek was so named because of the wreckage from the ship Maria, July 1840.
  
  Corrections to nos 9b,11c,18a,29 & 31 supplied by Richard Merry, January 2010
• Name
  Aldinga (ship)
  Pera (Ship)
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bush
  bush life
  camping
  creeks
  hunting
  mining
  rivers
  seascapes (artwork)
  
• Place
  Gawler (S. Aust.)
  Koringa (S. Aust.)
  Port Lincoln (S. Aust.)
  South Australia
  Torrens Lake (Adelaide, S. Aust.)
  Torrens, River (S. Aust.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Men and maps in Australia

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