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Northern view from Mt Lofty near Adelaide to the Barossa Ranges
1858
Medium
pen and ink and wash over pencil
Measurements
31.0 × 48.8 cm irreg. (image) 33.8 × 50.2 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1960
Gallery location
Gallery 5
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Born in Austria and trained in Italy and Germany, Eugene von Guérard was a professional artist when he came to the Victorian goldfields in 1852. When his search for gold was unsuccessful, he returned to his original profession and became one of Australia’s greatest colonial artists. Von Guérard’s paintings, drawings and lithographs combine Romantic grandeur with precisely drawn details of vegetation, geological formations and weather patterns. These highly finished presentation drawings were made in pen and ink, based upon earlier pencil sketches done on his travels around south-eastern Australia.
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Inscription
inscribed in pen and ink l.l.: 31. Northern View from Mt Lofty near Adelaide to the Barossa Ranges.
inscribed in pen and ink (in image) l.r.: Eug: v: Guérard / 1858.
Accession Number
636-5
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest