Dwellings - Australia - Victoria

Date: 1926

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-11

Description: Shows a view of Geelong from across a curve in the bay, with dwellings on a ridge at the left, and the city and part of the wharf at the right. Other Titles - Geelong at mouth of river that run [sic] 50 miles up to Melbourne. For 6 months in 1926, I lectured in Bands of Hope. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 181 x 238 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: 1862

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-073/074

Description: Bush scene with several houses between the trees Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double-page spread). Physical Description: Pencil, 175 x 520 mm

Date: 1859

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-063-001

Description: The Yarra River, a bridge and the city spread out over a low hill beyond it in the background. The masts of ships can be seen in the river to the far left Title from back Almost certainly a copy of a wood engraving from the Illustrated London news of approximately 1859. Most of W. S. Hatton's known work is copied from this source Inscriptions: Signed: W.S.H. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 236 x 360 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull, from English dealer Albert Berthel of Richmond, Surrey, 1914

Date: 1847 - 1848

By: Lang, Alexander Denistoun, 1814?-1872; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-099-012

Description: Shows the interior of an Australian squatter's home. A man is seated by the fire reading, while another man enters the room from the right. Various objects including clothes, utensils, horse tack, books, etc are around the walls and on the tables and chests. The settler has been identified as John Cumming of Darlinghurst, Victoria Extended Title - From "Scenes in the bush of Australia; By a Squatter. Published for the benefit of the famine relief fund of the Highlands of Scotland and of Ireland" [ca 1847 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph on sheet 277 x 379 mm Provenance: Possibly part of the collection of Alexander H. Turnbull.

Date: 1838

Reference: C-038-012

Description: Looking across the Yarra River towards the early settlement of Melbourne. Shows sites of buildings and streets with numbers and names Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 260 x 432 mm

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

By: Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950

Reference: E-312-q-058-1

Description: A rural scene in Victoria showing a picket fence and the town of Castlemaine in the distance Other Titles - Castlemaine Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - I H. 1890; Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 100 x 198 mm

Date: 1970 - 1850 - 1854

By: Thomas, Edmund, 1827-1867

Reference: C-079-037

Description: Looking uphill along Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, with Lonsdale Street crossing it in the foreground, in the early 1850s. Groups of people are on the footpaths and there are several horse-drawn carriages and carts. Houses and businesses line the streets. In the right foreground is a church with two men and a boy talking outside it. A cassowary or young emu stands near the group. A reproduction of a hand-coloured lithographic plate in Thomas, Edmund. Victorian views (Melbourne, 1854) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 205 x 330 mm, on sheets 443 x 559 mm

Date: 1890

By: Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: C-039-002-a

Description: A view across a river and plains towards a small settlement at the foot of a low hill, with Port Phillip Bay in the background Extended Title - The land of gum boughs and wattle bloom (series) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (three-tone), 343 x 543 mm

Date: 1890

By: Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: C-040-006

Description: A girl gathering flowers by a creekside path on the left, a woman walking behind her. On the right, across the stream, the houses of a small settlement Other Titles - The land of gum boughs and wattle bloom (series) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (three-tone), 304 x 477 mm

Date: 1835

From: Wedge, John Helder, 1792-1872 :Views and natives of Victoria. ca. 1835

Reference: E-027-007

Description: View of two huts with a tent to one side, surrounded by several trees. John Batman managed the surveying expedition in Victoria, 1835, of which Wedge was a part Other Titles - Indented Head Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 105 x 174 mm

Date: 1840

By: Haydon, George Henry - 1822-1891

Reference: A-099-003

Description: Shows four sailing ships in an inlet with houses on the surrounding banks Possibly from an illustrated newspaper Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 165 x 241 mm

Date: 1862

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-077/078

Description: An Australian bush scene showing a small house amongst trees Other Titles - Bulla Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 175 x 520 mm (double-page spread)

Date: 1886 - 1890

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-016

Description: A man seated outside a rough wooden shack. Shovels, axes and picks lean against a tree stump in the foreground, a fish hangs from the roof of a lean-to kitchen, a horse's saddle is hanging from a support to the right, and there are barrels, a wheelbarrow and other objects visible. The man is smoking a cigarette Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 219 x 288 mm

Date: 1836

From: Wedge, John Helder, 1792-1872 :Views and natives of Victoria. ca. 1835

Reference: E-027-016

Description: View of a small hut with a leanto at the back, and a door and window at the front. Trees are growing closeby and a cow is lying down on the right. Other Titles - Werribee Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 78 x 106 mm

Date: 1886 - 1890

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-015

Description: Several cottages in a bush setting with large gum trees (upper view) and a close view of a lyre-bird's nest beneath a fern (lower view) Quantity: 2 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints, sizes vary

Date: 1970 - 1850 - 1854

By: Thomas, Edmund, 1827-1867

Reference: C-079-036

Description: Looking downhill along Collins Street, Melbourne, in the early 1850s. Groups of people are walking along the street and there are several horse-drawn carriages. Houses and businesses line the street. Another smaller street crosses the main street in the foreground. A reproduction of a hand-coloured lithographic plate in Thomas, Edmund. Victorian views (Melbourne, 1854) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - E. T. [artist's monongram] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 205 x 330 mm, on sheets 443 x 559 mm

Date: 1871

By: Illustrated Australian news (Newspaper); Bruce, R, active 1871

Reference: D-002-020

Description: Shows and names buildings and places Key to : D-001-002/ Melbourne.... 1871 Extended Title - Supplement to: the Illustrated Australian News. October, 1871 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 7 x 8.9 inches

Date: 1890

By: Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: C-040-007

Description: A clearing in tall bush, with a wooden hut surrounded by a fence, alongside a road. One man drives a loaded dray away, another stands by the road with an axe over his shoulder, two children play near another dray and a woman stands outside the hut Other Titles - The land of gum boughs and wattle bloom (series) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (three-tone) 299 x 474 mm

Date: 1887

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-046

Description: A coal barge in the water in the foreground, the houses of St Kilda spread along the beach in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 345 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977. Daughter of the artist

Date: 1835

From: Wedge, John Helder, 1792-1872 :Views and natives of Victoria. ca. 1835

Reference: E-027-042

Description: View of a small house near the foreshore at Portland Bay. The house and land down to the water's edge is fenced off, including the land at the water's edge. Two rowboats [?] are anchored near the shore. The land has been cleared on both sides of the house and fenced area, of the dense bush seen behind. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 78 x 106 mm