Series 1: Watercolours of scenes of bush life

PXA 7711

series

1890s

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

9676482

21 watercolours - 39 x 28 cm and smaller

21 watercolours

1. ‘The Bunyip at home’
2. ‘The Death of the Bunyip’
3. ‘Death of the old Road Party horse’
4. Man on horseback wrangling cattle in floodwaters
5. Caption on recto: ‘I wish I had Allman and Lynch hooked in front’. Title on verso: ‘Sketches on the Woodburn Road near the old wine shop – giving a traveller a lift’.
6. ‘The Culvert in Milgate’s Scrub; At Anchor’ ; ‘he says: You fellows! If ever you get to Lismore, tell them to send the road party to dig me out’
7. Homestead at sunset with cattle and very tall trees
8. ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ ; annotated “H A”
9. White horse in profile beside large round water trough
10. Woman on horseback, signed and dated “ASR Collard, 1890” in lower left
11. Young child outside a cottage with a horse and a dog
12. Circular view of man on horseback with dog beside river
13. Circular view of river with small waterfall and pine trees on riverbank
14. Circular view of waterfall with grey rocks and brown trees on riverbank
15. Small vignette of river or lagoon with tree, reeds, birds and fence
16. ‘Convolvulus minor of Australia’
17. Flower study with long red petals
18. ‘Yellow crocus’
19. Fruit study of plum plant
20. Flower study of yellow pansies and English bluebells
21. Reproduction of flower study of yellow pansies and English bluebells in variant colours

Watercolours numbered according to vendor labels.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Date range based on one watercolour signed and dated 1890 and being of the same style and materials as the others in the collection.