Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed

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Notes

¹Candice Bruce, Eugen von Guérard (Canberra: Australian Gallery Directors Council in conjunction with the Australian National Gallery, 1980); Ruth Pullin, Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2011).

²Robert A. Stafford, ‘The Long Arm of London: Sir Roderick Murchison and Imperial Science in Australia’, in Australian Science in the Making, ed. R. W. Home (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 69–101.

³Bruce, 11–12; Pullin, 18–19.

⁴W. J. T. Mitchell, ‘Imperial Landscape’, in Landscape and Power, ed. W. J. T. Mitchell (Chicago: University Chicago Press, 1994), 5–34; Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (London: Routledge, 1992), 116–37; Harriet Ritvo, ‘The Natural World’, in The Victorian Vision: Inventing New Britain, ed. John M. MacKenzie (London: V & A Publications, 2001), 281–96.

⁵Paul Fox, ‘Victorian Historic Gardens: Cultural Background and Issues of Interpretation’, in Open to View: Historic Gardens and the Public: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Australian Garden History Society, 1990, 9; biographical details at Geoffrey Serle, ‘Edward Wilson (1813–78)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), vol. 6, 412–15.

⁶Pullin, 136.

⁷Pullin, 198.

⁸W. E. Stanbridge, ‘Some Particulars of the General Characteristics, Astronomy and Mythology of the Tribes in the Central Parts of Victoria’, Transactions of the Ethnological Society 1 (1861): 286–304.

⁹Ferdinand Mueller, Australian Vegetation, Indigenous and Introduced: Considered Especially in its Bearings on the Occupation of the Territory, and with a View of Unfolding its Resources (Melbourne: Blundell & Co., 1867), 3–20.

¹⁰Humphrey Clegg, ‘Mr John King's Station, 1861’, in Pullin, 190–91.

¹¹Paul Fox, ‘Cultivating Civilisation at Port Phillip: La Trobe's Colonial Experience’, La Trobe Journal, no. 71 (Autumn 2003): 114–29.

¹²Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi, Reading the Garden: The Settlement of Australia, (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008), 11–17.

¹³John Cotton's pen and ink sketch is located in Ornithology archive box 03989, Museum Victoria.

¹⁴Michael Varcoe-Cocks, ‘Stony Rises, Lake Corangamite 1857’, in Pullin, 119; For an illustration of how photographic images of Victorian Aborigines circulated in publications see Elizabeth Willis, ‘Reworking a Photographic Archive: John Hunter Kerr's Portraits of Kulin People, 1850s–2004’, Journal of Australian Studies 2, no. 35, (2011): 235–49.

¹⁵Jane Davidson-Ladd, ‘Lake Wakatipu with Mount Earnslaw, Middle Island, New Zealand 1877–79’, in Pullin, 262, 281.

¹⁶Eugene von Guérard, sketchbook, folio 7: Sketchbook XXVIII, 1857, Dixon Galleries, State Library of NSW, exhibited electronically.

¹⁷Edmund La Touch Armstrong, Book of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria 1856–1906, (Melbourne: Ford & Son, 1906), 113; Pullin, 6, 267, 269.

¹⁸Redmond Barry to Augustus Tulk, 22 December 1864, Mr Tulk's Report and List of Books, MS 12855, 3626 Augustus Tulk papers, State Library of Victoria; Report of Committee of the Public Library to the Trustees of the Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria of the Proceedings of the Institution form the Year 1853 to the Year 1869, and the year 1870–71, (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1871), 29–30.

¹⁹Philip Lindo, Portrait of the late Mr Augustus Tulk 1852, oil on canvas, State Library of Victoria.

²⁰Bonyhady, ‘The Tipping Point’, in Pullin, 36–41; exhibition panel relating to Eugene von Guérard's painting Yalla-y-Poora 1864.

²¹ Yeoman & Acclimatiser, 20 February 1864, 324.

²²Biographical details at Bruce, 125–26; Melvin N. Day, ‘Nicholas Chevalier (1828–1902)’, ed. Kerr, 147–49; Marjorie Tipping, ‘Nicholas Chevalier (1828–1902)’, ADB, vol. 3, 387–88.

²³Nicolas Chevalier to James Smith, 28 February 1880, James Smith papers, State Library of New South Wales.