KUNANYI / MOUNT WELLINGTON PAR AUGUSTUS EARLE

 

AUGUSTUS EARLE (1793-1838)
Mont Wellington / Kunanyi (1,271 m - 4,170 ft),
Australie (Tasmanie)

In Tasmania - Van Dieman's Island, gravure sur papier, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

 
La montagne
Le mont Wellington (1,271 m - 4,170 ft), dont le nom officiel depuis 2013 est Kunanyi, est un sommet de l'ile e Tasmanie en Australie situé en surplomb de la ville de Hobart. Il est très souvent appelé tout simplement « la montagne » (the Mountain) par les habitants d'Hobart. Fréquemment recouvert de neige, même q en été, la partie basse de ses versants est constituée d'épaisses forêts traversées par de nombreux chemins de randonnées ou des zones déboisées par des feux de forêts. Il existe une étroite route goudronnée longue de 22 km qui mène au sommet. Un refuge couvert et fermé permet d'avoir une vue sur la ville et vers l'est sur l'estuaire de la Derwent River et d"apercevoir au loin, à 100 km vers l'ouest les parcs nationaux de Tasmanie classés au Patrimoine Mondial de l'Humanité. A partir de  Hobart, la caractéristique principale du Mt. Wellington est de présenter une  falaise de colonnes de dolérite appelées les « tuyaux d'orgues » (the Organ Pipes).

 Le peintre
Augustus Earle était un peintre britannique. Contrairement aux artistes qui travaillaient hors d' Europe pour couvrir les voyages d'exploration  en tant que peintre-explorateur ou a ceux qui travaillaient à l'étranger pour de riches mécènes aristocratiques, Earle pu avoir toute sa vie durant  une large  autonomie, qui lui permit de capable de combiner son désir de voyager avec une capacité à gagner sa vie grâce à son art. L'ensemble des travaux qu'il a produits au cours de ses voyages constitue aujourd'hui un important dossier documentaire sur les contact et la colonisation européennes au début du XIXe siècle.  Il voyagea ainsi d'abord en Méditerranée avec la Royal Navy et en ramena un carnet tres fourni de dessins de Sicile, Malte, Gibraltar et l'Afrique du Nord, conservé à la  National Gallery of Australia à Canberra. Puis il embarque pour un voyage qui lui fit le tour du monde en passant par l'Amérique du Nord, New York et Philadelphie notamment avant de se rendre en Amérique du Sud  ou il visita le Brésil, le Chili et le Pérou.  Le 17 février 1824, il quitte Rio de Janeiro à bord du navire vieillissant Duke of Gloucester à destination du cap de Bonne-Espérance, puis  Calcutta,mais le navire fait naufrage et on retrouve notre Augustus Earle rescapé sur l'ile isolée de Tristan da Cunha, qu'aucun artiste avant lui  n 'avait jamais peinte !  Finalement il se rend en Australie ou il arrive en 1856 par la Tasmanie, ce qui fait de l'aquarelle présente ici, une de ses premières œuvres australiennes. Il se rendit par la suite en Nouvelle  Zélande, en Inde, à Pondichery, à Singapour, à Manille, Guam, et dans les  iles Carolines,   En octobre 1831, il fut engagé par le capitaine Robert FitzRoy comme artiste surnuméraire avec des vivres lors du deuxième voyage du HMS Beagle , travaillant comme dessinateur topographique. Il se lia alors  d'amitié avec Charles Darwin et, en avril et mai 1832, ils séjournent ensemble dans un cottage à Botafogo près de Rio de Janeiro. Cependant es problèmes de santé l'obligèrent  à retourner en Angleterre.

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MOUNT WELLINGTON / KUNANYI PAINTED BY AUGUSTUS EARLE

 

 

AUGUSTUS EARLE (1793-1838)
Mount Wellington - Kunanyi or Unghbanyahletta or Poorawetter (1,269m - 4,163ft)
Australia (Tasmania)

In Tasmania - Van Dieman's Islands, waterolor,1820,  Private collection,

The mountain
Mount Wellington (1,269m - 4,163ft) also known as Unghbanyahletta or Poorawetter or Kunanyi in Aboriginal langage, is located in the southeast coastal region of Tasmania, Australia. The Palawa, the surviving descendants of the original indigenous Tasmanians, tend to prefer the latter name. In 2013, a Tasmanian dual naming policy was announced and "Kunanyi - Mount Wellington" was named as one of the inaugural dual named geographic features.
The mountain is the summit of the Wellington Range on whose foothills is built much of the city of Hobart. Mount Wellington is frequently covered by snow, sometimes even in summer, and the lower slopes are thickly forested, but criss-crossed by many walking tracks and a few fire trails. There is also a sealed narrow road to the summit, about 22 kilometres (14 mi) from Hobart central business district. An enclosed lookout near the summit provides spectacular views of the city below and to the east, the Derwent estuary, and also glimpses of the World Heritage Area nearly 100 kilometres (62 mi) west. From Hobart, the most distinctive feature of Mount Wellington is the cliff of dolerite columns known as the Organ Pipes.
The first recorded European in the area Abel Tasman probably did not see the mountain in 1642, as his ship was quite a distance out to sea as he sailed up the South East coast of the island - coming closer in near present-day North and Marion Bays. No other Europeans visited Tasmania until the late eighteenth century, when several visited southern Tasmania (then referred to as Van Diemens Land) including Frenchman Marion du Fresne (1772), Englishmen Tobias Furneaux (1773), James Cook (1777) and William Bligh (1788 and 1792), and Frenchman Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1792–93).
In February 1836, Charles Darwin visited Hobart Town and climbed Mount Wellington.


The artist
Augustus Earle was a London-born travel artist. Unlike earlier artists who worked outside Europe and were employed on voyages of exploration or worked abroad for wealthy, often aristocratic patrons, Earle was able to operate quite independently - able to combine his lust for travel with an ability to earn a living through art. The body of work he produced during his travels comprises a significant documentary record of the effects of European contact and colonisation during the early nineteenth century. From 1817 to 1832, Earle travelled trough Sicily, Malta, Gibraltar, North Africa, North Americas (New York Philadelphia), South America (Brazil, Peru, Chile), Tristan da Cunha (Antartica) the Pacific, Asia, India, Mauritius, St Helena (where he met the french emperor Napoleon in exil), New South Wales, New Zealand, Tasmania... he came back in England in 1832 ans died in London in 1838.

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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

MOUNT YORK BY AUGUSTUS EARLE

  

AUGUSTUS EARLE  (1793-1838)

Mount York (1,061 m -3,481 ft)

Australia  (New South Wales)

  In View at the summit of Mount York,  engraving, 1826, Private collection Asutralia

The mountain
Mount York (1,061 m -3,481 ft) a mountain in the western region of the Explorer Range, part of the Blue Mountains Range that is a spur off the Great Dividing Range, is located approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) west of Sydney, just outside Mount Victoria in New South Wales, Australia. Mount York is a projection of the Blue Mountains dissected plateau, creating a promontory of the western escarpment with a minor rise at its summit. Lockley Promontory and Mount York Promontory both jut northwest from the western escarpment, and begin at Mount Victoria, a small mountain village.  Mount York is mainly forested in Eucalypt growth, mostly open canopied. Several small creeks that flow into the Coxs River system run down its side.
Mount York was the point where Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth viewed the Hartley Valley and the 'west' for the first time during their successful crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813, although some Europeans had already reached the valley before them.

The artist
Augustus Earle was a London-born travel artist...
- Augustus Earle (short biography)
- Augustus Earle (complete biography)

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2020 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

ONE TREE HILL PAINTED BY AUGUSTUS EARLE

AUGUSTUS EARLE (1793-1838)

One Tree Hill (1, 112m - 3, 648ft)

Australia 

 In Blue Mountains, watercolor on paper, 1820,  National Library of Australia.

The mountain 
 One Tree Hill (1,112m -  3, 648ft) is the highest point of The Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, about 100 kilometers west of Sydney It is a  sandstone mountain range and form part of the Australian Cordillera that runs roughly east and southeast of the Australian coast for about 3,000 kilometers. The name "Blue Mountains" also refers to the City of Blue Mountains (or Blue Mountain Communal Council), a local government in the chain; or at the Blue Mountains National Park. The Blue Mountains are deep gorges, up to 1,000 meters. They occupy an area of ​​1 436 km2.
The Blue Mountains are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.
The Blue Mountains were considered impenetrable by early settlers in Sydney, and were only crossed in 1813 by Blaxland, Wentworth, and Lawson. Rather than following the rivers, like previous explorers, who ultimately found only vertical cliffs, they decided to follow the ridges and high parts of the plateau. The first crossing of the Blue Mountains is generally considered one of the major steps in the opening of New South Wales to European settlers. However, there were already important areas accessible near the coast. The fact that the Blue Mountains have been a major impediment to settler expansion is largely myth.
A road, completed in early 1815, to cross the region was built in just 27 weeks by William Cox, on the orders of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, employing 30 convicts and 8 guards.
Coal and oil were mined near Katoomba until the Second World War.

The artist
Augustus Earle was a London-born travel artist...
- Augustus Earle (short biography)
- Augustus Earle (complete biography)

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

QUEEN'S MARY PEAK BY AUGUSTUS EARLE

AUGUSTUS EARLE (1793-1838)

Queen's Mary Peak  (2, 062m -  6,765ft)

Antarctica - British Overseas Territory (Tristan Da Cunha) 

1.  In Queen's Mary Peak in Tristan d 'Acunha, A Man killing an albatros, 1824 - Watercolour,

2.  In A north easter at Tristan d'Acunha Island, 1824, Watercolour, 

The mountain 

Queen Mary's Peak   (2, 062m -  6,765ft) is the summit of the island of Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic Ocean.  It is named after Mary of Teck, the Queen consort of King George V. It is the highest point of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (also written d'Acunha). The mountain is the peak of the massive shield volcano which forms the island. A 300 m (1,000 ft) wide summit crater caps the peak, and it contains a heart-shaped crater lake. This lake is normally frozen during the winter, and the upper slopes of the volcano are covered in snow.
The only recorded eruption began on 10 October 1961 from a vent on the north shore of the island, and continued into March 1962. The entire population of the island had to be evacuated and did not return until 1963. Queen Mary's Peak was used by sailors on the route from Europe to the Indian Ocean and beyond as a navigational aid. In the 17th century the East India Company instructed captains to sail via Tristan. In 2004, Ellen MacArthur sighted the Peak on her record-breaking circumnavigation of the world.

The artist 

Augustus Earle was a London-born travel artist...

- Augustus Earle (short biography) 

- Augistus Earle (complete biography)

THE CORCOVADO PAINTED BY AUGUSTUS EARLE

AUGUSTUS EARLE (1793-1838)

The Corcovado or Monte Cristo  (710m - 2, 230ft) 

Brazil 

 In View on the Sugarloaf  from the summit of Corcovado mountain, near Rio, 1822

The mountain 

The Corcovado (710m - 2, 230ft) meaning "hunchback" in Portuguese, is a mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The granite peak is located in the Tijuca Forest, a national park. It is often confused with nearby Sugarloaf Mountain. The peak of Corcovado is a big granite dome, which describes a generally vertical rocky formation. It is claimed to be the highest such formation in Brazil, the second highest being Pedra Agulha, situated near to the town of Pancas in Espírito Santo.
Corcovado hill lies just west of the city center but is wholly within the city limits and visible from great distances. It is known worldwide for the 38 metre (125 ft) statue of Jesus atop its peak, entitled Cristo Redentor or "Christ the Redeemer".
The most popular attraction of Corcovado mountain is the statue and viewing platform at its peak, drawing over 300,000 visitors per year. From the peak's platform the panoramic view includes downtown Rio, Sugarloaf Mountain, the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas (lake), Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, Estádio do Maracanã (Maracanã Stadium), and several of Rio's favelas. Cloud cover is common in Rio and the view from the platform is often obscured. Sunny days are recommended for optimal viewing. An additional attraction of the mountain is rock climbing. The south face had 54 climbing routes in 1992. The easiest way starts from Park Lage.
The Corcovado is also a symbol of the Brazilian culture.
Source: 
- WikiRio

The artist 
Augustus Earle was a London-born travel artist. Unlike earlier artists who worked outside Europe and were employed on voyages of exploration or worked abroad for wealthy, often aristocratic patrons, Earle was able to operate quite independently - able to combine his lust for travel with an ability to earn a living through art. The body of work he produced during his travels comprises a significant documentary record of the effects of European contact and colonisation during the early nineteenth century. From 1817 to 1832, Earle travelled trough Sicily, Malta, Gibraltar, North Africa, North Americas (New York Philadelphia), South America (Brazil, Peru, Chile), Tristan da Cunha (Antartica) the Pacific, Asia, India, Mauritius, St Helena (where he met the french emperor Napoleon in exil), New South Wales, New Zealand, Tasmania... he came back in England in 1832 ans died in London in 1838.