Item 02: Sketchbook of Andrew Bonar [1854, ca. 1857-1860, 1913]

PXA 538/vol. 2

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1854, ca. 1857-1860, 1913

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints

982583

1 album (86 drawings) - 23.5 x 30 cm - chiefly watercolour

The sketchbook includes a drawing (no. 76) by John Vine Hall showing the Creasus [i.e. Croesus] entering the Bay at Sydney. "Ship my father sailed in by Capt. Hall" [1854] and (no. 81) a lithograph of `Fort Dawes' from the etching, by Lionel Lindsay [1913] presumably added at a later date.

1a. [Sailing ship at sea]
1b. [Sketch of cattle being mustered]
2. Speaking a Ship 27 October 1860
3. Squally Weather 7th November 1860
4. Variable winds Sunset 32 North 12 November 1860
5. Peak of Teneriffe distance 40 miles Eest South East 13th November 1860
6. North East Sunset 14 November 1860
7. In the Tropics 19°s 4 December 1860
8. Sunset & heavy Sea 11th December 1860
9. A fresh breeze, springing up 11th December 1860
10. Light Winds Fin Back Whale & Albatross December 1860
11. Running down our Easting 30th December 1860
12. Captain Flood, Cunninghame, Captain Burrowes, Lloyd, Tillotson
13. Camping out
14. Balimore Head Station Talbragar Creek McArthur
15. Tubbo Murrumbidgee. Peters
16. Bargo Brush Great Southern Road
17. Sofala Turon River
18a. Goulburn River Crossing Place flooded and a horse gibbing
18b. [Elephant and tiger at river]
19. The Glass House Mountains Moreton Bay
20. The Crown Ridge Mudgee and Sidney Road
21a. Gillenbah Crossing Place. Murrumbidgee
21b. [Pyramid and camels]
22. Point de Galle - Ceylon
23. Morning Light - 1st December 1860
24. Morning Light. full sail
25. Morning Light. January 1(860)?
26a. [Shepherd on bush property]
26b. [Mustering cattle]
27. [Washing Sheep]
28. The Prairie
29. Prairie (?) Singleton
30. Sketch on the Coast at the North Head
31a. Dray leaving Woolshed at Buaraba
31b. Segenhoe
32. [Hunting dingoes ?]
33. [2 figures drinking from a stream]
34. [Horseman riding up to farm buildings]
35. North Head Port Jackson
36. La Hogue October 1869
37. Government House Sydney
38. [near Bowen, North Queensland]
39. [near Bowen, North Queensland]
40. [near Bowen, North Queensland]
41. Banana Township. Queensland
42. Prairie Cattle Camp getting in cows
43. Sketch in Harvey's Channel coast of Queensland. Blacks in their bark canoes or 'Towroos'
44. Stonehenge. New England
45. Rose Bay. Port Jackson from Tivoli
46. [Mustering cattle in rocky countryside]
47. Bathurst Plains New South Wales from "The Rocks" Looking East
48. Heads of Port Jackson
49. From East side of Blue Mountains
50. Dalwood (Wyndham) Hunter River
51. Sheep Station Sunrise
52. The Green Swamp near Bathurst New South Wales
53. [Aborigines in rocks]
54. From Tivoli Rose Bay Port Jackson
55. Cunningham's Gap from near Ipswich
56. Crossing Place on the River Brisbane 15 miles from Ipswich
57. The Boab Tree
58. Buaraba Station. Moreton Bay
59. Blacks' Camp
60. Ipswich Moreton Bay
61. Drays on the Road
62. Burning Grass in the Bush
63. [Fence, country properties]
64. Tree Ferns, Domain Sydney
65. [Ship wrecked on rocks]
66. [Ship in heavy seas near lighthouse, with unidentified townscape on reverse]
67. Sketch of the Gap near South Head Port Jackson
68. Getting a Shot at a Duck
69. Maronan (McArthur) New England
70. Tilbuster (Dumesque) New England
71. On Macdonald River New England
72. Scenery on Blue Mountains
73. Scenery on the Blue Mountains. New South Wales
74. Liverpool Plains at Warrah Liverpool Range behind
75. Dalwood (Wyndham) Hunter River
76. The Creasus [i.e. Croesus] entering the Bay at Sydney. Ship my father sailed in by Capt. Hall [1854]
Signed "I.V.F" at lower left.
Undated; dated after comparison with John Vine Hall's Sketches in Australia, New Zealand, South America, India and England, 1842-1873 (PXA 4461/vol. 2/ff. 4,7,11,22)
77. On McDonald River New England
78. The Fish River from Bathurst Road
79. Entrance to Port Jackson. Sydney in the distance
80. Darling Downs
81. Fort Dawes from the etching, by Lionel Lindsay [1913] / lithograph by W.C. Penfold & Co. Ltd.

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955, applies to works by John Andrew Bonar
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Titled 'Sketch book of Andrew Bonor / Cresus [i.e. Croesus] ship in which he went to Australia in 1856' by the donor on a label pasted inside the front cover.
Contents List PXA 538. Titles in brackets devised by cataloguer.

Sketchbook contains some works fixed with adhesive tape