Title:
Sketchbook of fishes / W.B. Gould pinxt.
Author/Creator:
Production:
[Sarah Island?, Tasmania] : W.B. Gould, [1832?]
Physical description:
36 leaves of paintings in 1 sketchbook : watercolour on paper ; each 185 x 227 mm.
Binding:
Quarter bound in leather with marbled boards.
Medium:
paper; watercolor
Format:
sketchbook
image (online)
Accession number:
HA277
Notes:
Title of sketchbook from Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts accession register.
Nos. 8-10, 13, 19, 20 signed 'W.B. Gould, pinxt' ; all undated. Unsigned sketches attributed to William Buelow Gould.
Individual works have no titles or species identification within the sketchbook. Identification of fish is from numbered list accompanying the sketchbook.
Has blank pages between pages 35-41. Page 42 has preliminary pencil sketch of Aseroe rubra. Last 20 pages of sketchbook are blank.
Exhibited: Natural History July 1996 - October 1996. "Fishes from the End of the World", April - July 2011.
Inscribed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register on 1 April 2011.
Access conditions:
Restricted: do not retrieve. Digitised version of paintings are available.
History note:
Paintings were probably completed at the request of Dr. William De Little to whom Gould was assigned as a house servant during his term as a convict on Sarah Island (Macquarie Harbour).
Contents:
1. Yellow eye mullet -- 2. Flathead -- 3. Flounder (2 views showing upper and lower sides) -- 4. Perch -- 5. Rock cod -- 6. Australian Salmon -- 7. Cow or coffer fish -- 8. Toad fish -- 9. Walking fish -- 10. Garfish -- 11. Weedy sea dragon -- 12. Silver dory -- 13. Sea Slug -- 14. Sea slug -- 15. Cling fish -- 16. Chiton -- 17. Starfish -- 18. Sea horse -- 19. Soldier fish -- 20. Weed fish -- 21. Shrimp and unidentified fish -- 22. Leather jacket -- 23. Porcupine fish -- 24. Hardy head -- 25. Saw shark -- 26. Stargazer -- 27. Ling -- 28. Pipe fish -- 29. Snake eel -- 30. Nurse shark -- 31. Unidentified fish -- 32. Mountain trout -- 33. Barracouta -- 34. Fresh water crayfish -- 35. Parrot fish -- 41. Aseroe rubra (Red starfish fungus, or the anemone stinkhorn).
Condition:
Condition: 2006: Dirt. Foxing appears on all pages. Binding of sketchbook is rough. Some glue/paste? is coming through endpapers and staining.
Alternate Title:
Gould's sketchbook of fishes
Citation:
Digitised item from: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.
Record ID:
SD_ILS:80818
Electronic resources:
View paintings online