Drawings from the Frome expedition [B 2434/1-43] • Artwork
Drawings from the Frome expedition
'Gawler township' 7-8 July 1843. Henderson and Capt. Frome's expedition party stayed overnight here at a small inn on their way to the northern Flinders Ranges
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Sketch of 'Reedy Creek', 1843, near Campbell's Range, north of Bundaleer and close to one of John Bristow Hughes's sheep stations
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Hughes's station - the furtherst habitation northward'. This was the run taken up by John Bristow Hughes in the Bundaleer district, the most northerly from the settled districts of the colony at that time
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'Isolated rock, Narien Range'
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'Narien Range' showing the expedition's camp
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Black Rock Hills
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'Pass in Rowe's Creek' [near Lake Frome]
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'Eagle's Nest Hills' [near the Siccus River]
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'River near Mt Searle'. The caption should read 'River near the eastern face of Mount McKinlay' - Frome incorrectly identified the mountain as Mount Serle, but the expedition went no further north than the present Italowie Gap. An archivist in the South Australian Archives in 1958 considered the possibility that this view is in fact a composite of several features in the Mount McKinlay vicinity
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'Glen Osmond near Adelaide' [shows a scene at the Toll House, Glen Osmond, looking west towards the Gulf St Vincent]
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'Frome Bridge, Adelaide' [Albert Bridge on Frome Road]
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'Mr Poole's - Glen Osmond - near Adelaide'
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'Glen Osmond new road, near Adelaide' [into the Mount Lofty Ranges]
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'Henderson's Creek (dry)' [Creek named after the artist by Capt. E.C. Frome, July 1843. Henderson's Creek is near Black Rock Plain, Siccus River district]
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'Pasmore River' [it was named after William Pasmore, a member of the Royal Sappers and Miners who arrived in SA about 1842 and was a member of Frome's expedition. An alternative name for this river is the Wilpena Creek]
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'Ridley's Steam Mill near Adelaide' [The steam mill at Hackney, on the south side of the River Torrens, was built by John Ridley, flour miller, in 1842. This view shows the area before a bridge was built across to the north side of the river, as shown in F.R. Nixon's sketch in 1845]
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'Crater of an extinct volcano' [the exact locality is not given]
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'Devil's Glen' [Ravine in an area north of the Flinders Ranges]
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'Halting Place at the Cavern, Rowe's Creek' [Cave in a small cliff beside Rowe's Creek used by Capt. E.C. Frome's expedition as a harness room]
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Mundy's Valley, Mount Bryan' [Mundy's Valley, about three miles from Mount Bryan, where Henderson met Capt. Frome's party again after riding back some distance to find Frome's memorandum book which he had lost earlier, about 21 August 1843. This was the day after the Frome expedition commenced its homeward journey]
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'Drive through the scrub (Hawker and Henderson)' [Mr Hawker and Henderson walking beside a supply cart and two horses, possibly sketched on Monday 8 August 1843, in the vicinity of Pasmore Creek]
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'Pass in Rowe's Creek' [A watercolour painting. The pass was reached by Frome's party about 25 July 1843.]
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'Wallaby Springs' [Possibly on Saturday 6 August in 1843. It is described in Henderson's journal as being near the Warm Springs and west of Mount Victor.]
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'Weeping tree' [A large weeping tree, which Henderson noticed at noon on 26 July 1843 and subsequently sketched. Earlier the party had left Rowe's Creek, and Frome named a high hill 40 miles to the east Mount Victor, after noting the appearance of this unusual tree]
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'Encampment' [The scene shows five members of the party, a shelter, cart and horse, and a man stoking a fire]
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'Preparing to start' [Three men, one of them James Henderson with his mount 'Dusty', preparing to leave for a day's ride during the expedition with Capt. E.C. Frome to the area north of the Flinders Ranges. It is unlikely the scene shown is the expedition leaving Adelaide on Saturday 8 July 1843, as a light cart, which had been sent on ahead with two of the party, is shown in this sketch]
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'Prewitt's Springs' [A spring named after the policeman Prewitt in Frome's party, about 27 July 1843. Henderson's journal describes the wild geranium plant growing at this spot]
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'View of Narien Range' [View of the Narien Range and a member of the Frome party, with two of their dogs, shooting a kangaroo. Narien Range was named by Governor Grey by 1842 during an earlier expedition as far as the Black Rock Hills]
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'Black Rock Hills - depot'
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'Part of Black Rock Hills'