Off for Australia [microform] : emigration every body, and every thing, now, all, is new: autobiography of William Strutt [19--]
- Bib ID:
- 42541
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- Strutt, William, 1825-1915
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference.
- Description:
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- Canberra : National Library of Australia, [19--]
- 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm.
- Summary:
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Typescript copy of the part of Strutt's autobiography dealing with his years in Victoria and New Zealand, 1850-1862. The autobiography discusses Strutt's voyage to Australia in 1850 and recounts his various occupations during his years in Victoria and New Zealand. It also describes life in early Melbourne, the gold digging at Ballarat and gives some history of Melbourne and Victoria. Also included are typescript copies of notes made by Strutt about the christening of the son of a New Zealand chief, Mr. Pomare in 1863, and about the Burke and Wills expdition, and typescript copy of a newspaper article about Strutt in the Melbourne Argus, 1911 July 14.
- Biography/History:
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William Strutt was an artist and draughtsman. He was born in Devon, England in 1825 and during the 1840s studied art in Paris. In 1850 he came to Australia and except for eighteen months spent in New Zealand, 1855-1856, he lived in Victoria until he returned to England in 1862. He is noted for his paintings and drawings of personalities, including John Pascoe Fawkner, Sir Edward Macarthur and Robert O'Hara Burke, and of events, such as the bushfire at Macedon on 6th February 1851. After his return to England he continued to paint, notably religious pictures, almost up to the time of his death in 1915.
- Notes:
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- Associated materials: the full, illustrated version of Strutt's autobiography is also available on microfilm.
- Microfilm positive also available.
- Microfilm copy of typescript held by Manuscript Section, National Library of Australia, NK4387.
- This is only part of Strutt's autobiography, which is copied in full, and from the illustrated original on mfm G 657 (positive).
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1850, 1862
- Occupation:
- Artists
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1915
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 9999
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