Views of the Clarence River by G.H. Bruhn

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fonds

1856-1869

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

9680021

3 watercolours - 26 x 33 cm or smaller - pen, ink and watercolour on paper

Dr George Hermann Bruhn (1810-1889) was born in Germany and emigrated to Australia with his wife and four children in 1847. Initially settling in Adelaide, he moved firstly to Victoria, and then in about 1856 to Cundletown, NSW, where he was the town’s first resident physician and surgeon before moving north to Maclean on the Clarence River.

Reference:
Compiled from the Library’s acquisition file

Originally in the possession of Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore (1835-1913, Governor of New South Wales 1868-1872), and then by descent from John Armar Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore (born 1951).

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1. Rocky Mouth a few years ago – Corrobora [sic] of Aboriginals [Bundjalung]
This work documents First Nations people from the Bundjalung nation at Woodford Island at a time when the frontier wars were continuing throughout the colony. It includes manuscript text, giving the location as Woodford Island at the confluence of the ‘Right Arm’ and the ‘South Arm’ of the Clarence River, with geographical and geological notes.
Signed 'G.H. Bruhn fec.' lower left
25 x 33 cm

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2. Clarence Heads [with inn on the headland]
Includes manuscript text detailing the bar across the river and the red beacon pole to warn of a reef of rocks.
22 x 33 cm

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3. [Inspection tour by the Viceroy on board the steamer Agnes Irvine]
Includes typescript text describing the scene as 'villagers of Maclean, Rocky Mouth bid farewell to the vice-regal party [possibly the Governor of NSW, and the Earl of Belmore Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry] on its way to Grafton' [with three sail-rigged vessels and one steamer in the foreground]
Signed 'G.H. Bruhn fec.' lower right
26 x 33 cm

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

Titles transcribed from inscriptions on works unless indicated by square brackets.

Some works signed by artist.

Date (earliest 1856) based date Bruhn moved from Cundletown to Maclean. Date (latest 1869) based on the visit of the Earl and Countess of Belmore to the Clarence and Richmond River districts.