• Title
  Oswald W.B. Brierly - sketches mainly of Twofold Bay and the voyage of the H.M.S. Rattlesnake in New Guinea and the Louisiade Archipelago, ca. 1842-1854
• Creator
  Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.) Brierly, 1817-1894
• Call number
  DGD 19
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1842-1843, 1847-1849, 1854
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Drawings, Ephemera, Photographs
• Reference code
  440201
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 32 drawings (pencil - ink - watercolour drawings) - 42.5 x 39 cm. or smaller
  Ephemera - 1 card - 11.3 x 15.3 cm.
  Photographs - 1 photoprint - 14.5 x 24 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Island of Tristian d'Acunha / Thursday March 17th 1842 at 10.30. A ... Bearing S W by W / D is about 20 miles [with distance notes at upper right]
  2a. Botany Bay 30 Novr. 1842. [Landscape with grave. Inscription on tree] "F.T. Larsen / Les Restes / Receveur / te Tars"
  2b. Rules / your distance from the object should always exceed .... [pencil perspective sketch with notes on measuring distance]
  3a. North Head Woranggi [sketch of Twofold Bay with places marked]
  3b. [unfinished pencil sketches of map and whales or sharks]
  4. Camp Beermuna / Twofold Bay - Decr. 16th 1842 / N.S.W. / O.W.B.
  5. [Camp] Monday Evg [i.e. evening] - 2nd Jany 43 ...
  6. Bloomah / Toby's Gin / Twofold Bay / Jany. 9th 1843 / O.W.B.
  7. Fish caught in Twofold Bay Australia / (natural size) / Memo / The Body is mainly transparent - The Fins are very delicate and vibrate with great rapidity / The Mouth is placed at the extremity of a tubular snout
  8. Peak Range from the Camp / 1847
  9. [Bush with mountains in background]
  10a. Rockingm Bay / June 3d 48 / Kennedys Camp
  10b. [Sail boat, unfinished sketch]
  11. Morning 4th June 1848 - / Start of Kennedy's Expedition 9.30 am
  12. A Surveyor Tent - Bush of Australia
  13. H.M.S. Rattlesnake / Frankland Islands / 13 June 1848 / 1st Cutter recall [in pencil at upper left of image, with notes at right]. Reef at one of the Frankland Islands - Inner Passage Great Barrier Reef of Australia / H.M.S. Rattlesnake June 13 1848 [on mount below image].
  14a. Vally [i.e. valley] Lizard Islands looking S.E. Aug 5 48
  14b. Vally [i.e. valley] Lizard Islands looking S.E. Aug 5 48
  14c. [unfinished sketch on reverse of sheet 14b]
  15. Old Bridge / Near Capt. Wickombes House. Brisbane River. / May 23 - 1849
  16. [Coral beach, possibly on an island in the Inner Passage, with sailing ship in distance]
  17. Watering Party / "Sud Est" Island. / Louisiade Archipelago / June 26 1849
  18. Women of Dufaure I. / Co. New Guinea / Dufaure Island / Sept 9 1849 / O.W.B.
  19. Mask procured from Native / Evans Bay - / Cape York / October 12- 1848 - [with notes on dimensions, description of materials, and ceremonial use]
  20. Kokenyan [ant hill] Dec. 1-1849 / circumference at base 20 feet / 13 feet high
  21. NW End. Three Isles of [or and] Cape Flattery ... / July 29/48 [with notes]
  22. 'The Recall' (Imperieuse-) a gun for Admiral, .... signal / .... Leewd / 7 am May 17 1854 / Looking Westerly
  23. Esmeralda 9th June [with notes]
  24. [Landscape]
  25. [Boats on river with building in foreground, inscribed in pencil on the reverse, "Plans & Maps of / Boyd Town"]
  26. Encounter with Natives - / Louisiade Archipelago - [drawn by Huxley]
  27. [Beach scene with boats off-shore]
  28. [Ships in Farm Cove, photograph of Brierly watercolour painted in 1884]
  29. Invitation, "Miss Brierly requests the pleasure of / _ company / to view the few remaining Sketches and Studies / by the late Sir Oswald W. Brierly, R.W.S. / (Marine Painter to Queen Victoria), / on Thursday, November 10th, 11 to 5, / in the Galleries of Messrs. Elliott & Fry, / 55, Baker Street, Portman Square, W., / by kind permission of Ernest C. Elliott, Esq. / The Sketches will remain on view until Dec. 1st" [printed]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  No. 5 is similar to a sketch that appears in Oswald W.B. Brierly - Journal of a visit to Twofold Bay, Maneroo, and Districts beyond the Snowy River, Dec. 1842 to Jan. 1843 (A 535, p.65)
  No. 9 is titled on the front and reverse.
  No. 14 is on two sheets of paper.
  No. 25 has two fold lines and a split through the centre.
  Previously attributed to Brierly, No. 26 is similar to sketches of New Guinea natives by Thomas Huxley, (SV*/NG-E/1-3 Mitchell Library).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824228
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most drawings are titled.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
  
• Name
  Esmeralda (barquentine)
  Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court, 1818-1848
  Rattlesnake (Ship)
  Recall (ship)
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bays
  bush
  camping
  camps
  canoes
  expeditions
  fish
  indigenous artefacts
  indigenous people
  ships
  surveying
  tents
  
• Place
  Bounty Bay
  Brisbane River (Qld.)
  Cape York (Qld.)
  Louisiade Archipelago (Papua New Guinea)
  Tristan da Cunha
  Twofold Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Art of exploration - Perc Tucker Regional Gallery. Applies to: Nos. 10-11, 13
  Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (October 2004 - February 2005). Applies to: ff. 4,13,18,21
  Any news of La Perouse? - State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: f.2(a)
  Le Mystere Laperouse : enquete dans le Pacifique Sud - Musee Nationale de la Marine. Applies to: f.2(a)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1010623

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