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Title
Volume 03: Sketchbook XXIV, No. 6 Australian. Australia. 3 Jul. – Aug., Dec. 1855 / by Eugene von Guerard
Call number
DGB 16/vol. 3
Level of description
item
Date

1855
Type of material
Graphic Materials
Reference code
824694
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 sketchbook - 10.6 x 15.5 cm. - 86 leaves (all pencil drawings, on both sides of the paper). Sketchbook has pocket inside front cover
Scope and Content
Areas & subjects: Cape Otway, Salisbury, Adelaide, Tanunda, Angaston, Murray River, Australian Aborigines (dwellings), Botany, Portland Bay, Warrnambool, Williamstown (Australian Aborigines)

86 leaves. Numbered by von Guerard

f. 1. Melbourne – 3 Jul. 55 Cape Otway
caricature of anon
f. 2. bir Truro – 17 Jul 1855
f. 3. Gawler bin Tannunda – 14 Jul 1855
Gawler Creek
f. 4. a.v. Gawler b. Tannunda – 14 Jul 1855
f. 5. Salisbury – 12 Jul 1855 .
f. 6. Christs Church Adelaide – 11(?)Jul
f. 7. 12 Jul 55. Gawler Town Dry Creek
f. 8. 26 Jul 55. Salisbury. New Cat Church.
f. 9. Kaiserstuhl bei Tannunda – 14 Jul 1855
f. 10. 14 Jul 55 bin Tannunda
f. 11. Tannunda Creek – 14 Jul
f. 12. Tannunda Creek – 15 Jul. 55
f. 13. Tannunda – 15 Jul. 55.
f. 14. Tannunda – 15 Jul. 55
f. 15. Tannunda Creek
f. 16. Angas Town – 16 Jul. 55.
f. 17. Church – German inscription – 16 Jul. 55
f. 18. Angas Town– 16 Jul. 55..
near Truro
f. 19. n. Murray Angas Town
f. 20. Zuichen Truro n d. Murray – 17 Jul. 55.
f. 21. Murray Plains – 17 Jul. 55
the Anfunz v. 2 Murray Plains – Moorunder
f. 22. Mittel Plains in the Murray – 17 Jul. 55
f. 23. House of Capt. E[?] Moormde [?] – 18 Jul. 55
f. 24. River Murray Mooranda – 18 Jul. 55
long german inscription
f. 25. Murray – 18 Jul. 55
f. 26. Moorinder [?] P. Scott’s – Station – 19 Jul. 55.
f. 27. Murray – 19 Jul. 55
f. 28. Murray – about 19 Jul. 55.
f. 29. Moorinder [?] onst (?) Cipreflan
f. 30. Murray Plains peppermint scrub – 20 Jul. 55
f. 31. 20 Jul. 1855 – Murray Hills
f. 32. Murray scrub – 20 Jul. 55.
f. 33. Murray scrub – 20 Jul. 55.
f. 34 Truro n Tannunda – 21 Jul. 55.
f. 35.23 Jul. 1855. Peppermint Lindock Valley
f. 36. New kirche in Adelaide Scotto – 25 Jul. 55
f. 37. My My wurlies – Blackfellows camp bin Adelaide – 25 Jul. 55
f. 38. Eisendach – 25 Jul. 55. College in Adelaide
f. 39. Hus bet Adelaide Torens p
f. 40. Mount Lofty Glen Osmond Mount Akeet
f. 41. 26 Jul. 1855. waflufall [waterfall] Glen Osmond
f. 42. 26 Jul. 55 First Creek …
f. 43. Mount Lofty – 27 Jul. 1855.
f. 44. … Mt Lofty … Adelaide – 27 Jul. 1855
f. 45. Mt Lofty – 27 Jul. 55 Mount Pauke – 27 Jul. 1855
f. 46. wasserfall on First Creek – 27 Jul. 55
f. 47. drawings of plants (ferns) First Creek Valley
f. 48. 2nd fall First Creek – 27 Jul. 55
f. 49. Mount Lofty grasbusch [i.e. grass tree] 28.7.55
f. 50. Valley by M. Lofty
f. 51. Gawler town – 29 Jul. 1855
f. 52. Torrens Adelaide – 30 Jul. 55
f. 53. Kath Kirche Adelaide – 31 Jul. 55.
f. 54. New Legislative Council Adelaide – 31 Jul. 55
f. 55. Parck [park] Adelaide – 31 Jul. 55
f. 56. Torrens River Adelaide – 31 Jul. 55
f. 57. Col. Victoria
Cape Bridgewater Cape Nelson – 3 Aug. 55 Cap Nelson West lich (?) Oortland Lawrence Island – Portland 3 Aug
f. 58. Lawrence Island (2 views)
f. 59. Portland Bay – 3 Aug. 55
f. 60. Portland …
Portland – 3 Aug. 55
f. 61. Portland Bay
4 kangaroos trying to jump.
f. 62. von Portland
f. 63. Einfehntzn Port Fairy – 4 Aug. 55
f. 64. Mister Laidlaws farm – 4 Aug. 55
f. 65. Mt v. Grampians v Mt B – Mount Sturgeon - Mt Abrupt – 6 Aug. 55
f. 66. No. 3 v. Grampians n.d. Mt B
f. 67. 6 Aug. 55 Grampians Pyrenees p. (2)
6 Aug. 55 Mount Napier n. […?] crater y. Mt B
f. 68. 8 Aug. 55 Kangatong
f. 69. n. Mr Dawson Wurnambool [i.e. Warrnambool] – 11 Aug. 55.
f. 70. Near Warnambool [i.e. Warrnambool] arn River Hopkins – 11 Aug. 55
f. 71. Ausfluss Hopkins p.
f. 72. Warnambool [i.e. WarrnamboSol] – 11 Aug. 55
f. 73. study of cow & clouds p.
clouds p.
f. 74. lighthouse at Williamstown – 12 Aug. 55.
f. 75. clouds – 15 Dec. 55.
f. 75. repeated Station Park y. d. Flats (?) nf Melburn Sunday – 12 Aug. 55.
f. 76. clouds Kûrte gigen (?) Warnambool [i.e. Warrnambool]
f. 77. Johny the Artiste Kongatong – 8 Aug 55 (Aborigine)
f. 78. Johny Kongatong – 8 Aug 55 p. 14-15 jahrall [years] (Aborigine)
f. 79. Tigerkatze Kongatong – 8 Aug 55.
f. 80. Carlolin [Carolin?] Adelaide 16 years old– 31 Jul 55
f. 81. Aboriginal man – [2 drawings] – Adelaide
f. 82. Adelaide Aboriginal man seated
f. 83. Mary – Adelaide Aboriginal woman seated
f. 84. Native kinder [i.e. children] Carolin
f. 85. Adelaide - Aboriginal man seated western dress
f. 86. Adelaide - Aboriginal man in front of tent
f. 87. Adelaide – Jimy & Mary (Aborigines) from Victoria Murray
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Contents list transcribed in 2008 from listing compiled by Edward Comstock, 1970 (PXn 571)
General note

Microfilm available at CY 610
Digital order no:Album ID : 908616
Signatures / Inscriptions

In German. Drawings are chiefly titled and dated; some have further descriptive notes. Inside cover “1855. South Australia. Kongatong” in ink, and pencil names and place names. Leaves numbered by von Guerard.
Name
Johnny, active 1855
Subject
Aboriginal Australians.
Topic
mountains
trees
landscapes (artwork)
portraits
Place
Victoria
South Australia
Adelaide (S. Aust.)
Murray River Region (N.S.W.-S. Aust.)
Exhibited in

Eugene von Guerard's South Australia: Drawings, paintings and lithographs from journeys in South Australia in 1855 and 1857
Artists' Retreat: Discovering the Mornington Peninsula 1850s to the present
Australian Portraits Timeline
Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed
South Australia Illustrated: Colonial Painting in the Land of Promise
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