• Title
  A collection of drawings in watercolour, ink and pencil : illustrative of the life, character & scenery of Melbourne 1850-1862 / drawn by William Strutt
• Creator
  William Strutt, 1825-1915
• Call number
  DL PXX 9
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1850-1862
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Photographs
• Reference code
  457951
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album of 21 ff. of drawings - 45 x 34.5 cm. in box.
  
• Scope and Content
  Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952.
  Detailed contents list available.
  Contains drawings and photographs pasted on leaves, with captions in Strutt's handwriting below many of the items.
  
  f.1 A Collection of Drawings / in Watercolour, Ink and / Pencil by William Strutt, / R.B.S., F.Z.S. / Illustrative of the Life, Character / and Scenery of Melbourne 1850-1862
  f.2 General Macarthur's dress. 1860 / ......
  f.3a Boats on Yarra Melbourne 1850 -
  f.3b ..... Primitive method of shipping stock, at Sandridge - / Hobson's Bay - Port Philip - 1850 - ......
  f.4a Officer - / ......
  f.4b Soldiers 40th Reg - on boards City of Hobart - / off to New Zealand
  f.4c 40th Regt - line - 1858
  f.4d Soldiers of 11th Regiment of Infantry firing a salute at opening of Princes / Bridge, Melbourne - on Separation day 1850 [Annotated studies]
  f.5 Mrs Stringer - / Melbourne - / Victoria - 1851
  f.6 The Aurora Australis / Melbourne December 17th 1857. Looking over Hobson's Bay. [Annotated sketch]
  f.7 Government House - / Melbourne - / ...... [Annotated]
  f.8 Mr O Shaunassy - / .......
  f.9a Officers Quarters 40th Regiment near Princes Bridge / Melbourne
  f.9b The Richmond Punt over River Yarra Yarra / ........ 1850
  f.9c Scene in Bush near Melbourne
  f.10 [Two sketches of landscape, one with a cottage, near Melbourne, each with caption]
  f.11a [Three sketches of landscape, one coastal]
  f.11b [Three sketches of landscape, one coastal]
  f.11c [Three sketches of landscape, one coastal]
  f.12a Shed on farm near Melbourne
  f.12b At Keilor near Melbourne 1851
  f.12c A Mob of Australian Horses / going to market .....
  f.13a Outside admirers of the English Cricketers playing with the Melbourne men - November 1861 [Three sketches of spectators in trees]
  f.13b Outside admirers of the English Cricketers playing with the Melbourne men - November 1861 [Three sketches of spectators in trees]
  f.13c Outside admirers of the English Cricketers playing with the Melbourne men - November 1861 [Three sketches of spectators in trees]
  f.13d ..... Men lifting the Chest of pure gold / first brought from Ballarat into the Treasury / of Melbourne. from nature by W. Strutt
  f.14a [Landscape] Near Melbourne
  f.14b Banks of Yarra Yarra [annotated sketch]
  f.14c [Farm buildings]
  f.15a Long Native Grass Melbourne
  f.15b Long Native Grass Melbourne
  f.15c Long Native Grass Melbourne
  f.15d Long Native Grass Melbourne
  f.15e Rock. Melbourne. Victoria
  f.16a Near Melbourne [rough sketch, with notes of landscape]
  f.16b Sketch near Saint Kilda Hobson's Bay / in distance
  f.16c Near Melbourne [Landscape, annotated]
  f.17 [J.P. Fawkner M.L.C. Founder of Melbourne. Compare f.3a, in Melbourne Drawings, First Series]
  f.18a Sergeant of / Melbourne Mounted Police
  f.18b [Charles Never compare Melbourne Drawings First Series f.6a of which this is a reversed tracing; and a trooper mounted, traced from f.7c in the First Series]
  f.18c Black Trooper. Melbourne - December 1850 [Reversed tracing of f.7c in Melbourne Drawings First Series]
  f.19a Ballarat - 1851 - / Hut of bark of Red Gum tree / .... Black trooper's Mia Mia
  f.19b Melbourne black / from east taken from / nature. [Head]
  f.19c Bush fires, sketched from the / deck of the Great Britain Steamship / as we sailed out of Hobson's Bay / Victoria Australia. January 30th 1862
  f.19d [Farm - house] Near Melbourne
  f.20a Coruncuiam Munight / Native Police
  f.20b Coruncuiam Munight / Native Police, but on larger paper. The words 'Native Police' are omitted
  f.21 Tracing of the only Existing View of Melbourne in 1850 / Done at the Opening of the Princes Bridge on Separation Day
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Bound by Sangorski & Suttcliffe, London, in quarter leather (green morocco).
  Hand lettered title page.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1301446
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some are signed, "William Strutt", "W. Strutt", or "W. S."
  Most are captioned below the item; some have annotations on the picture.
  Some are dated.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  portraits
  buildings, structures & establishments
  uniforms
  
• Place
  Melbourne (Vic.)
  Princes Bridge (Melbourne, Vic.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Heroes and Villains : Strutt's Australia
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3244208

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