Davenport Range, from the highest point of Younghusbands Range [picture] / George French Angas
- Bib ID:
- 1061705
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Angas, George French, 1822-1886
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [between 1859 and 1864]
- 1 print : transfer lithograph ; 11.8 x 18.0 cm.
- Series:
- George French Angas after John MacDouall Stuart.
- Summary:
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Davenport Range is in the Northern Territory, 20*29' 134*05'. Angas's drawing shows a view to the western end of the range. Stuart's journal entry for 4th June 1859 relates directly to this drawing. "At nine miles and a half attained the highest point of the range, and built a cone of stones thereone, and have named it "Mount Younghusband", after the Honourable Wm. Younghusband. From it I had a good view of the surrounding country, which seems to be plentifully supplied with springs. To the north west is another related range like this; I should think it is about seven hundred feet high. I have named it "Mount Kingston" after the Honourable G. S. Kingston, Speaker of the House of Assembly".
Stuart is the figure looking through the telescope. The other member of the expedition, who wears a pith helmet and carries a stone to complete the building of the cairn, is probably William Kekwick, the Second Officer. Surveying, which included the building of trigonometrical stations, is a recurring theme in both the journals and the drawings.
- Notes:
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- Condition: good.
- Title from inscription on reverse.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-145962974
- Subject:
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- Stuart, John McDouall, 1815-1866 -- Portraits
- Kekwick, William Darton -- Portraits
- Stuart, John McDouall, 1815-1866 -- Journeys -- Northern Territory -- Pictorial works
- Explorers -- Northern Territory -- Pictorial works
- Northern Territory -- Discovery and exploration -- Pictorial works
- Davenport Range (N.T.) -- Pictorial works
- Younghusband Range (N.T.) -- Pictorial works
- Kingston, Mount (N.T.) -- Pictorial works
- Related Records:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Engraving
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1886
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1864
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