THOMAS JOHN DOMVILLE TAYLOR
circa 1817-1889

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, PERTH

THOMAS JOHN DOMVILLE TAYLOR

circa 1817-1889

Drawings (1840-1848)
21 sheets
pencil on paper
(sizes various)

1) (Two New South Wales Landscapes) 1840
inscribed 'Part of Omeo Plains. head of the Murray River – N. S. Wales – 1840' below upper image; inscribed 'Snowy Mountains from Big Hill 1840 / N.S. Wales hd. of the Murray' lower left
36.8 x 25.4 cm
2) (Portrait of a Young Aboriginal) 1841
inscribed 'Jimmy [Timmy?] a Native boy of Moreton [Bay?] / New South Wales / 1841' lower centre
18 x 18 cm
3) (An Australian Squatter and a Latin American Woman) 1843
verso: ('Nutwith', winner of the 1843 Doncaster St Leger Stakes) 1843
inscribed 'An Australian Squatter' lower left; inscribed 'Nutwith' verso
12.6 x 26.3 cm
(copied from wood engraving in Illustrated London News 23 September 1843, p. 201)
4) Tummaville, Darling Downs
bears [C20th?] inscription 'Tummaville Darling Downs / D. Taylor's hut etc.' lower left; inscribed 'Tummaville, Darling Downs / D. Taylor's hut &c' verso
21.1. x 35.2 cm
5) (Taylor and Rolland's First Camp at 'Tummaville')
20.1 x 34.3 cm
6) Tummaville, Darling Downs 1844
verso: (A Bush Landscape with Two Figures)
inscribed 'Tummaville – Darling Downs / N. S. Wales / 1844' lower right; inscribed 'Miss Milman' verso
26.5 x 35.3 cm
7) (The Long Reach, 'Tummaville') 1845
inscribed 'The "Long Reach" on the Broadwater / Tummaville Station Darling Downs / N S Wales 1845' lower right
25.9 x 36.1 cm
8) ('Tummaville') 1845
inscribed '"Tummaville" Cattle run. Darling Downs / N.S. Wales / 1845' lower right
25.9 x 36.4 cm
9) (View on the Condamine River) 1845
inscribed 'Group of Blue Gum trees / in the bed of the Condamine River / Cecil Plains Darling Downs / N.S. – Wales 1845' lower right
26.5 x 20.9 cm
10) (Bullock dray descending Cunningham's gap, Great Dividing Range)
inscribed 'A Squatter's dray of Darling Downs / descending the first pinch in / Cunningham's Gap, Main Range, / on its way to Moreton Bay' lower centre
24.5 x 16.4 cm
11) "Gee, Smiler!"
inscribed 'Gee Smiler! / Darling Downs squatters ascending / the Main Range of Mountains from / Mortton Bay with supplies' lower centre
24.5 x 16.4 cm
12) (Farmstead Interior)
inscribed 'Interior of a [illeg.] House [illeg.]' lower right; inscribed 'very dark' centre right
12.6 x 26.4 cm
13) (Camp on the Leichhardt River) 1845
inscribed 'The return / party encamped / on the Leichardt / River N S Wales / 1845' lower left
25.9 x 36.4 cm
14) (Search Party's Camp at 'Jimbour' Station) 1845
inscribed 'The Party in search of Dr Leichardt / Encamped as H Dennis' / Station. Jimbour. Darling Do\x85 / 8th. Augt. 1845' lower right
25.8 x 36.5 cm
15) (Search Party's Camp at Dried Beef Creek) 1845
inscribed 'Dr Leichardt 7 days camp / on Dogwood Creek when he dried the beef – N S Wales / 16th. Augst 1845' lower right
24.4 x 36.4 cm
16) (Search Party's Camp at Leichhardt River) 1845
inscribed 'The Expedition in search of / Dr Leichardt & party encamped / on the Leichardt River – N S Wale[s] / 27th. Augst 1845' lower right
24.8 x 36.5 cm
17) (Mt Domville, Darling Downs, Queensland) 1845
inscribed 'Mount Domville on the Liechardt ' River / N.S. Wales / 6th. Septr. 1845, lower right
25.9 x 36.3 cm
18) (Johnny Sleeping) 1845
inscribed '"Johnny" asleep – / the black interpreter / of the Expedition – / Leichardt River / 1845' lower right
16.4 x 24.5 cm
19) (James Rogers' Camp, Dried Beef Creek) 1845
verso: (Aboriginal Mortuary Platform) 1845
inscribed 'Rogers' camp / Leichardt 7 days camp' lower right; inscribed '"Pooram" / Dogwood Creek N S Wales / 16th Septr 1845 / [in a later hand?] 'on which the dead are placed to be devoured by / crows & hawks -' verso 16.4 x 24.5 cm
20) (Interior of Domville Taylor's Hut) 1847
bears inscription '"Tummabil" / Darling Downs / Morton Bay / Australia / Interior of the hut of Domville / Taylor sketched by him & the / Painting by George Pickering Chester / 1847' verso
18.1 x 23.5 cm
21) (Cabin on Board Ship) 1848
inscribed 'On board the Steamship / "Avon" 1848 / fm West Indies' lower right
21.4 x 25.9 cm

Sketchbook (1840-1848)
32 pages
pencil on paper
13.3 x 23 cm (sheet); 13.3 x 23.5 cm (bound)

f1r: inscribed 'N.S. Wales / Darling Downs Squatters encamped on Frazers Creek' lower centre; f1v: (part of following sketch); f2r: inscribed 'Squatters for Darling / Downs – Encamped / on Byron Plains / N S Wales 1841' lower right; f2v: (part of following sketch); f3r: inscribed 'Jones's (?) Station / Liverpool Plains / N.S. Wales 1841' lower right; f3v: inscribed 'Aborigines of Australia / on the lookout for whitefellows' lower right; f4r: (drawing of aborigines); f4v: inscribed 'Squatters in search of blacks / N S Wales' lower right; f5r: (drawing of men in camp); f5v: (blank); f6r: inscribed 'Darling Downs / N S Wales' lower left; f6v: (no title/inscription – landscape with tent and drays) n.b. sheet cut – one folio missing; f7r: inscribed 'Aborigines of Australia encamped' lower right; f7v: (blank); f8r: inscribed 'Roping Cattle. N.S. Wales' lower right; f8v: (blank); f9r: inscribed '"Camping Out" N S Wales' lower right; f9v: (blank); f10r: inscribed 'A party in search of blacks' lower right; f10v: (blank); f11r: inscribed 'Wool Press Australia' lower centre; f11v: (blank); f12r: inscribed 'Myall Tree / N S Wales'; upper right; inscribed 'from Mitchell's Australia' lower left (Composite of two illustrations from Mitchell: Remarkable tree and Remnant of the Bogan Tribe); f12v: inscribed '"Boyeer" / Cecil Plains / Russell & Brook's / Station – Darling Downs / N.S. Wales / 1845 / Condamine River' centre left; f13r: (part of previous sketch); f13v: (blank); f14r: (no title/inscription – dray with two bullocks and man with whip); f14v: (blank); f15r: inscribed 'Antipodes Island bearing E 27 miles / \xBD N / Lat 49? 35" Lon: 178.? 58" / as seen from the "General Hewitt" on his / voyage from Sydney N S Wales to London / 1st July 1846' upper centre; f15v: (no title/inscription – island seen from the sea); f16r: (part of previous sketch); inscribed 'Centre of Antipodes / Island NE 5 miles / distant – as seen / from the Ship "genl. Hewitt" / on the voyage from / Sydney N S Wales to / London 1st July 1846 / The tops of the mountains / were covered with Snow / size of Island about / 5 miles long -' centre right; f16v: (blank); f17r: inscribed 'An Old Mammy. N S Wales – / fm. Mitchell's Tropical Australia' lower left; inscribed 'Native of N S Wales / fm Mitchell's Tropical Australia' lower right; (Two illustrations from Mitchell: Old native female and Portrait of Bultje); f17v: (no title/inscription – three drawings: woman emptying pot from window onto pedestrian below; interior of squatter's hut; stirrup pump (?)); f18r: inscribed 'Brazilian / Soldier' lower left; inscribed 'Travelling at Pernambuco. / Brazils' centre; inscribed 'Negress at Pernambuco – selling oranges' lower right (fourth drawing with no title/inscription – female figure with missing arm); f18v: (blank); f19r: inscribed 'Shooting blacks / N.S. Wales' lower right; f19v: inscribed 'fm / Mitchell's / Tropical / Australia' crentre right; inscribed '"Ballone" River. N. S Wales'lower right (Illustration from Mitchell St George's Bridge); f20r: inscribed 'Drinking – N S Wales' lower right; f20v: (no title – Aboriginal (?) man and verandah (?) structure); f21r: inscribed 'Roping a bullock. N.S. Wales' lower right; f21v: inscribed 'Modesty' upper left; inscribed 'Catamaran – Pernambuco' centre; inscribed '"Camping out" / N S Wales' upper right; inscribed 'Asleep / "Camping out" / N S Wales' centre right; f22r: inscribed 'In search of a run – N.S. Wales 1840 (?)'lower right; f22v: (no title – comic sketch in ink of man and woman)
13.3 x 23 cm (sheet); 13.3 x 23.5 cm (bound)

Journal 1845
38 pages
ink on paper
20 x 32 (sheet); 21.5 x 33 cm (bound)

• Lot Sold $420,000 (Hammer Price)
• $512,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Private Collection, United Kingdom
Private Collection, Perth, by descent from the above

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