(Distant view of hut with Plenty River in foreground)
(1853-1856)
no. 12 in the Plenty Station set
Medium
pencil and white gouache on buff paper on card
Measurements
19.2 × 27.2 cm (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1960
Gallery location
Gallery 5
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Prior to European settlement, Plenty River was a significant site for the Wurundjeri-willam people. In the 1840s this area north-east of Melbourne was settled by John and Robert Bakewell. The writer William Howitt described Plenty Station in 1855 as ‘very agreeably situated on a high swell above the river of that name. It has a considerable extent of cultivated fields, and the house is one of those wooden ones brought out from England, which seem as good now as on the day they were set up.’ Edward La Trobe Bateman was commissioned by the Bakewell brothers to document the property, producing twelve meticulous, highly finished pencil drawings.
Artwork Details
Inscription
none
Accession Number
645L-5
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
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