signed lower left: E.v. Guerard
Related work:
Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges, 1857, oil on canvas, 92 x 130 cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Ferntree or Dobson's Gulley, Dandenong Ranges, 1858, pen and ink and wash on paper, 37.7 x 54.9 cm, National Gallery of Victoria.
Dobson's Gulley, Dandenong Ranges, 8-27 May 1859, pen and ink and wash on paper, 35.9 x 59.7 cm, Dixson Galleries, State Libraries of New South Wales.
Ferntree Gulley, Dandenong Ranges, colour lithograph, 32.8 x 51.5cm, pl. XIII in Eugene von Guerard's Australian Landscapes: A Series of 24 Tinted Lithographs illustrative of the most striking and picturesque features of the Landscape Scenery of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia & Tasmania, Drawn from Nature Lithograph by the Artist with Letter Press Descriptions of each View, Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne, [1866-67].
The text accompanying von Guerard's lithograph mentions that "the scene lies in the vicinity of the Southern Dandenong Saw-Mill, about five and twenty miles eastward of Melbourne... a comfortable hotel in the immediate neighbourhood, the Gully is a favourite resort for summer tourists!"
Mr and Mrs Patrick Ryan
Joshua McClelland Print Room
Mr & Mrs R. Andrew, Melbourne
unknown
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
private collection, Brisbane
The First Exhibition of the Society of Fine Arts, Melbourne, 1857, cat. no. 148
''The Painted Vision: 1840 - 1963'', Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 2009
Bruce, C., Comstock, E. & McDonald, F., Eugene von Guerard: A German Romantic in the Antipodes, Alister Taylor Publishers, Martinborough, New Zealand, 1982, pp. 92-3
Bonyhady, T., Australian Colonial Paintings in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1986, p.170, p.173
Ritchie, R., Seeing the Rainforests in 19th Century Australia, Rainforest Publishing, Sydney, 1989, p.67 (illus.)