natural history artist and teacher, accompanied the New South Wales colonial geologist, Samuel Stutchbury on a geological and mineralogical survey of the colony in 1852-53. Drawings by Curtis, probably based on outlines by Stutchbury, are located in the latter’s diary of the expedition (Mitchell Library [ML]) and the Dixson Galleries have a collection of seventy-five associated pencil and watercolour drawings by Curtis, T.H. (Harford) and ' L.V.D. '. Those signed and dated by Curtis are of trees and geological features on the Liverpool Plains, around the Macquarie River and in the Warrumbungle Ranges such as Eucalyptus (1853), Liverpool Plains Large Mountain 'Marela’ (1853) and Macquarie River Swamp Oaks—Casuarina (1852). His watercolour view of Bathurst (1854, ML) exists separately. A pen-and-ink drawing of an Aboriginal camp (c.1855, private collection) attributed to 'Mr William Curtis, BA, Tutor to Captain Hanbury Clements RN of Summer Hill’, was presumably by the same artist.

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1992

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1989