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Title
Sketches of Melbourne, 1879 to 1888 / by Charles S. Bennett
Creator
Charles Bennett, 1861-1930
Call number
DL PX 50
Level of description
fonds
Date

1879-1888
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
900569
Physical Description
64 drawings - pen and ink, 31 with watercolour added
Scope and Content
A few of the views are of places in Victoria other than Melbourne, and one is of Albury, N.S.W.

DL PX 50

1 Flag Staff Hill
2 Prince's Bridge
3 River Yarra, near Prince's Bridge
4 Bath's Corner River Yarra
5 A Souvenir of the Emlbourne "Blacks", A Canoe tree near Princes Bridge
6 Flood marked Tree, Princes Bridge
7 Captain Lonsdale's Cottage
8 Punt Road Ferry, River Yarra Yarra
9 River Yarra at Prince's Bridge
10 The last of the old Yarra at Prince's Bridge
11 Melbourne from Mouth of River Yarra
12 Light - house, Williamstown
13 "Military Barracks & Convict Prison", Williamstown
14 The Mouth of the Yarra at Williamstown
15 Collins' Street East, Corner of Latrobe Parade
16 Residence of L. Buvetot, Artist, A bit of old Fitzroy
17 Old Gumtree, Swanston & Flinders Streets, Dr Thompson's Camp
18 Entrance to Penny Bridge, Studley Park, Victoria
19 Penny Bridge, Studley Park, Victoria
20 Toll Bar, Studley Park, Kew, Victoria
21 Nicholson's Corner, Cr. Collins & Swanston Streets Melbourne
22 Early Melbourne architecture, "St. Pauls". Swanston Street
23 Early Melbourne Architecture, Little Collins Street East
24 Melbourne from the Saint Kilda Road, 1880
25 Burke & Wills
26 Burke & Wills Monument. Died June 1861
27 Saint James' Cathedral, foundation stone laid by Latrobe, November 9th 18..
28 Old Treasury, William Street, Melbourne
29 Sorrento, Arthurs Seat in Distance. "Union Jack" unfuled by Captain Murray
30 Russell Street, Melbourne from the Swamp, Princes' Bridge
31 Gold Escort Stables, Near Treasury, Melbourne
32 The Last of Cremorne, near Richmond, Victoria
33 Falls Bridge, River Yarra Yarra
34 Immigrants home and Swamp at Prince's Bridge
35 Boat Sheds at Prince's Bridge
36 "The Beacon", Black Rock, Port Phillip
37 Temporary Bridge, River Yarra, Melbourn
38 The last of the Boatsheds & Temporary Bridge, Princes Bridge, River Yarra
39 John Batmans tomb, Old Melbourne Cemetary
40 Graves of Early Colonists, Williamstown
41 Olympic Theatre, " Coppin's Iron Pot ", Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
42 Governor Latrobe's Residence, Jolimont, Melbourne
43 Twickenham Ferry, River Yarra
44 Railway Bridge at Falls, River Yarra, Saint James' Cathedral in distance
45 Gipsy Village, A haunt of the Poet Gordon
46 "Wilkies", Gipsy Village, A haunt of the Poet Gordon
47 "A Relic of Coaching days" Pt Nepean Road
48 D'estaville, Residence Chief Justice Stawell
49 Princes Theatre, Spring Street, Melbourne
50 Toll Bar, Near Collingwood
51 Early Bird Hotel, Near Johnston Street Crossing River Yarra
52 "Menzies", River Mitchell, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria
53 "Toll Bar" Saint Kilda Road, Melbourne
54 Chuchill Island, Western Port Bay
55 Shortlands Bluff, Port Phillip Heads
56 The Nameless Graves, Point Ormond, Port Phillip
57 "Hovell" November 17.24. WK, River Murray, Albury. Hume, Hovell expedition
58 Botanical Refreshment Rooms, Near Richmond, Victoria
59 Brander's Ferry on the Yarra
60 Dight's Falls, on the Yarra, Victoria
61 Old Convict Hulk, River Yarra, Victoria
62 Government House, Toorak, Victoria
63 Old Water Tank, Eatern Hill, Victoria
64 No.1 "Cashmore's Corner", North East Corner of Elizabeth & Collins Street
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
General note

Half-bound in green crushed morocco.

Title from spine.

Two typed contents lists, one prepared by Sir William Dixson and the other in the Dixson Library, are roughly attached at the beginning of volume.

On verso of front endpaper Sir William Dixson has written in ink 'These pictures were obtained in one lot in 1903. The artist had had a dispute with the Authorities of the Melbourne Public Library who refused to purchase the pictures when they were offered. The artist then sent them to Sydney & I purchased them. [Signed] W. D. The artist died about 1930.'

Also loose in this volume was a Christmas card with a reproduction of one of Bennett's watercolours on it. Now placed at PD 370.
Subject
Art, Colonial--Australia.
Topic
views
Place
Melbourne (Vic.)
Victoria
Albury (N.S.W.)
Public Library, Museums and National Gallery (Vic.)
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