• Title
  Item 05: Goulburne River [i.e. Goulburn], 1862 / Eugene Von Guerard
• Call number
  PXC 309
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1862
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  825493
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (29 drawings in pencil, and pencil and crayon, mounted on alternate leaves) - sizes range from 14.3 x 15.5 cm. to 22.6 x 58 cm. in album 40 x 63 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
  29 sketches in album (red morocco and red patterned buckram with gold tooling and lettering) titled Von Guerard / Goulbourne River
  
  f. 1. Mt Piper near Broadford from [?]
  f. 2. One Tree Hill near Broadford
  f. 3. Start ar[?] Queen Parrot Creek
  f. 4. Flowerdale. King Parrot Creek
  f. 5. Flowerdale
  f. 6. View of the Sugarloaf W. of Doogalong [sic] Station – Goulburne [sic]
  f. 7. White Gum at Flowerdale Mr Ferguson St[ation]
  f. 8. Doogalook [sic] Goulburn River
  f. 9. Goulburn River Doogallook
  f. 10. Niagroona [sic] Mr Connelly’s Station. The Cathedral in the Valley of the Acheron
  f. 11. The Cathedral from Mt Frome [?]
  f. 12. Cathedral Aitkens Station on the Acheron
  f. 13. Thoms Station Goulburne [sic]
  f. 14. Bunyarrombite. Fall of the […?] Creek
  f. 15. at Chennery’s [i.e. Chenery ] station […?] River
  f. 16. … von Mansfield mit Battery Hill
  f. 17. Dr Rowes old station
  f. 18. Dr Rowe’s old station Mt Buller & Timbertop from Mssrs Chennerys Station on the Devils River
  f. 19. Mt Dorbrack [? Torbruck]
  f. 20. Mt Pleasant. Mt Torbrack [?Torbruck] & … Ranges
  f. 21. Mr Alfred Chennerys [sic] station on the Devils River
  f. 22. Mt Pleasant. Mr McKenzies station Goulburn
  f. 23. Mr Nashes station on the Goulburn
  f. 24. Ford at Mr Nashes station Goulburn
  f. 25. Mr Glasses station on the Goulburn
  f. 26. Mt Ludlow. One Tree Hill Mr Clases [sic] station
  f. 27. Tallarook Pulpit Rock
  f. 28. Mt Piper or Sugarloaf
  f. 29. Kilmore from the Catholik [sic] Church
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  f. 23 and f. 25 comprise of sheets pasted together; f. 21 comprise 3 sheets pasted together and folded.
  "Bound by Wallis, London" -- printed on reverse of marbled end paper
  Digital order no:Album ID : 971286
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  All drawings are dated and titled; all are unsigned. Some drawings have notes (in German).
• Subject
  Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Cities and towns--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
  
• Topic
  mountains
  rivers
  farms
  trees
  
• Place
  Goulburn River (Vic.)
  Doogallook (Vic.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sweet damper and gossip: colonial sightings from the Goulburn and North-East
  Gallery re-opening display
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE425778

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