• Title
  Item 04: Apollo Bay and Cape Otway, 1859 - 1862 / Eugene Von Guerard
• Call number
  DL PXX 15
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1859-1862
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  825478
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (14 drawings in pencil (9), pencil and crayon (4), and ink and watercolour (1), mounted on alternate leaves) - sizes range from 18.4 x 31 cm. to 33 x 143 cm. in album 37.5 x 58.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Eugene von Guerard, painter and teacher, was born in November 1811 in Vienna. He studied in Dusseldorf and travelled in Germany and Italy before arriving in Victoria in 1852. He visited the Ballarat goldfields and later travelled in Victoria, N.S.W, S.A. and Tas. In 1870 he was appointed Curator of the National Gallery of Victoria and Principal of its Art School where he remained until his retirement in 1881.
• Scope and Content
  14 drawings in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering) titled Von Guerard / Apollo Bay and Cape Otway. Some drawings comprise separate sheets pasted together and folded.
  
  [i.] Fortes Fortuna Junvat, William Dixson [bookplate on front cover verso]
  f. 1. ... Apollo Bay & Cape Otway ... No. 12, 1859-1862 ... [title page]
  f. 2. Cape Otway Ranges southeast view near the [?]
  f. 3. Red Rock Warrion Hills
  f. 4. View of the River Aire & Moonlight heads. West 8-0 miles fr. Cape Otway
  f. 5. Cape Otway nahe an d. Leiter unter d. Leucht thurm [Cape Otway near the ladder below the lighthouse]
  f. 6. Wild Dog Creek
  f. 7. Valley of the Woody Yallack [i.e. Yallock] near Pitfich [i.e. Pitfield]
  f. 8. Cape Otway
  f. 9. Hama Bay. Apollo Bay sawmill
  f. 10. Apollo Bay
  f. 11. Wild Dog Creek Apollo Bay
  f. 12. Mr Andrew Wittles [?] residence at Apollo Bay
  f. 13. River Barker Fall Cape Otway
  f. 14. Near Apollo Bay
  f. 15. Mündüng v Barker River unten d. Cape Otway Leucht thrum [The estuary of the Barker River below the Cape Otway lighthouse]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  "Bound by Wallis" -- printed on reverse of marbled end paper
  Album has the remnants of a label (inside front cover) in the same position, and probably the same label (A.H. Spencer, Melbourne) as described for The Dandenong Ranges, 1855-1858 / Eugene von Guerard (DL PXX 13)
  
  Copy Print : DL PXX 15 Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:Album ID : 949528
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Pencil inscriptions place names, and dates. Drawings are titled, and all are dated, except f. 2; all unsigned. Some drawings have extensive notes (in German). Titles are also in Sir William Dixson’s [?] hand, on mount at lower right.
• Subject
  Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Landscape drawing, Australian--19th century.
  
• Topic
  trees
  rivers
  sawmills
  
• Place
  Victoria
  Otway, Cape (Vic.)
  Apollo Bay (Vic.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eugene von Guerard : nature revealed
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE432566

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