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Eugene von Guérard
Cape Bridgewater and the grand encroaching white sand hommocs east from Lake Bonbong 1858
pen and ink and wash over pencil
32.0 × 49.8 cm irreg. (image) 32.9 × 49.9 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1960
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Cape Bridgewater and the grand encroaching white sand hommocs east from Lake Bonbong
1858
Medium
pen and ink and wash over pencil
Measurements
32.0 × 49.8 cm irreg. (image) 32.9 × 49.9 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. After his search for gold proved 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.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in pen and ink l.l.: 23. Cape Bridgewater and the grand encroaching white sand Hommocs east from Lake Bonbong.
inscribed in pen and ink l.r.: Eugen von Guérard / 1858.
Accession Number
643-5
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
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