Autobiography and papers [manuscript].

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Autobiography and papers [manuscript].

Contents: 1 & 2: autobiography, 1825-1897; holograph draft, includes years up to end of New Zealand period (1856) and later years in Melbourne and England. 3: autobiography, 1825-1861, in draft form, partly revised and typed and much in author's hand. 4: Correspondence and Papers i) 1819-1918 re land; ii) 1840-1915, including 6 original drawings by W. Strutt; iii) 1868-1954, concerning Strutt's pictures; iv) 1778-1923, concerning the Strutt family. Also, newscuttings and letters of Alfred W. Strutt, 1885-1955.

7 v., 1 portfolio.

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Strutt, William, 1825-1915

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William Stutt was an artist and draughtsman. He was born 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 retuned 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 1851 Feb. 6, important in the early history of Victor...