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The deviation or cutting, Fyansford, Geelong, Victoria, ca. 1880

Out of Copyright. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia. | Public Domain

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Date

between 1876 and 1884

Artist

Abram Louis Buvelot (1814-1888)

Collection

National Library of Australia

Image Link

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4363314

Description

Title from auction catalogue: Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 16-17 April 2008; Inscriptions: Signed in medium lower right corner; Condition: Some discolouration from previous framing; repaired tears upper right, along right edge and upper left near edge; horizontal crease. ; The painting shows the onset of industrialisation in rural Victoria with the man-made deviation of the Barwon River, and the construction of a wooden bridge which was built in 1854 and tolled until 1877. The large chimney, to the left, indicates the use of the water course to power industry, presumably the paper mill in this case. The area of Fyansford is where Captain Forster Fyan established a police camp and was the site of the south-west Victorian Protectorate Station for Aborigines. It was also one of the earliest white settlements in the Geelong Region and became a centre for Geelong industry--Acquisitions documentation. Medium: watercolour.

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Public Domain

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Out of Copyright. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia.

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Fyansford, Geelong, Australia

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