• Title
  [Collection of views, ca. 1840-1848 by J.S. Prout]
• Creator
  John Skinner Prout, 1805-1876
• Call number
  DGD 16
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1840-1848
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457850
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 12 watercolours in mounted boards - images of various sizes ; 53 x 40.5 cm mounted boards
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Skinner Prout, (1805-1876), artist, was born on 19 December 1805 at Plymouth, England. He arrived with his wife and seven children in Sydney on 14 December, 1840. He brought a complete lithographic printing press with him, and in early 1841 he started producing lithographed versions of his drawings of Sydney. In January 1844, Prout moved to Hobart and commenced drawing Hobart and environs for a series of lithographic views. During his time in Australia he went on many sketching trips throughout New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria, often with the sketching clubs he helped organize. Prout and his family returned to England in April, 1848. Sources: Skinner Prout in Australia, 1840-48 by Tony Brown. ML Q759.994/53. Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition.
• Scope and Content
  f.1 Our Tasmanian home
  f.2 From Ball's Head
  f.3 Cockatoo Island
  f.4 Cataract Glen, Mount Wellington, Tasmania
  f.5 Native encampment
  f.6 Gully at Wollongong
  f.7 The Dandenong Ranges, Victoria
  f.8 A fern tree valley
  f.9 Black Man's Cove, Tasmania
  f.10 Source of the Derwent, Tasmania
  f.11 Willoughby Fall, North Shore, Sydney
  f.12 Mount Keira, N.S.W.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  f.1 is dated 'May 17th, 1844'. On the back of the mount is written 'Given me by Mr. Alex [?] Morton May 1906 J.W. Beattie', and in very faint pencil 'Macquarie Street Hobart Town near [?] Church'. On a separate piece of cardboard with the sketches is written the following: 'J. Skinner Prout's (the celebrated artist) House, Macquarie St Hobart Town. The house was nearly opposite All Saints Ch. and is the one occupied by Judge Adams "Birlington Lodge". This is an original sketch by Mr. J.S. Prout.' The name of Judge Robert Patten Adams' house is given as Birlingham in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
  f.2 is dated 1858. Prout returned to England in 1848.
  ff.3-10, f.12 appear in "Australia", by Edwin Carton Booth, illustrated with drawings by Skinner Prout, etc. London: Virtue, 1873-1876 ML DSM/Q980.1/46A1 v.1-2.
  f.11 appears in Sydney Illustrated by J.S. Prout; with letter press description by J. Rae. ML F981.1/P.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 825887
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most are signed 'Skinner Prout' or 'J.S. Prout'. Most are undated. Some have been titled by Prout.
• Name
  Prout, John Skinner
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bush
  bush huts
  Colonial architecture
  colonial art
  gorges
  groups (people)
  harbours
  mountain ranges
  picnics
  pioneer bush life
  tree ferns
  valleys
  waterfalls
  
• Place
  Balls Head (N.S.W.)
  Cataract Glen (Mt. Wellington, Tas.)
  Cockatoo Island (N.S.W.)
  Dandenong Ranges (Vic.)
  Derwent River (Tas.)
  Hobart (Tas.)
  Keira, Mount (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Wellington, Mount (Tas.)
  Willoughby Falls (N.S.W.)
  Wollongong (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The rivulet : the creek and the drain - State Library of Tasmania (13 October, 2008 - 13 March, 2009). Applies to: No.8
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1199308

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