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Date

[November 1849]

Artist

Robert Elwes (1819-1878)

Collection

Private Collection

Description

I now began to think of my departure from Sydney…and amused myself very well till the day of sailing in sketching the beautiful views about the harbour. But altogether Australia is but a poor country for one in search of the picturesque. An excellent artist named (Conrad) Marten who lives on the north shore, is hardly appreciated in this matter-of-fact country as he ought to be. He is a very clever sketcher and accompanied the expedition of the "Beagle".
This is a page from a unique leather-bound volume of Robert Elwes’ travelogue 'A Sketcher's Tour Round the World', first published 1854, (see page 294 for corresponding passage).
The book contains the printed text of the manuscript but remarkably, the monochrome wash illustrations are hand painted by Elwes. The book bears a handwritten inscription ‘Mary F Elwes from her affect. husband Robert Elwes Jan 25 1878’, dated after Robert Elwes became ill at Congham, his Norfolk home. On 28th January 1878 , their youngest daughter Violet noted in her diary: “Papa much worse”. Less than three months later, Robert Elwes died on 17th April aged 58.

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Courtesy of a private collector

Location

Bathurst, NSW, Australia

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