Notes and drawings.

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Notes and drawings.

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A collection of pen and ink sketches, including several of Dight's Mill on the Yarra river and views from a sketching trip in Gippsland. A brief extract from a diary kept by Russell makes reference to Count Strzelecki an explorer to Western Port in March 1840. Russell also made a sketch of huts built near Port Albert in 1841 for survivors of the Clonmel disaster.

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Russell, Robert, 1808-1900

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Appointed surveyor at Port Phillip in 1836, Robert Russell assisted Robert Hoddle in laying out Melbourne. He became a private architect in 1839 and an amateur artist. From the description of Sketch, 1849. [manuscript]. 1849. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224992554 Robert Russell, architect and surveyor was a member of a survey party despatched to Port Phillip in 1836, and made a plan of Melbourne which was later used by Robert Hoddle in his official survey. ...