Twenty three original artworks of marine and plant life (originally in a sketchbook), executed by William Hoare, with notes by Peter Walker linking the artworks to references in Hoare's diary.

William Webster Hoare migrated to South Australia with his brother, P.E. Hoare, aboard the Irene in 1862. He was apparently trained as a pharmacist and obtained a position with the 1868 -1870 Goyder Surveying Expedition to the Northern Territory as assistant to the surgeon, Dr Peel. He filled his spare time in the camp sketching, and his notebook (series 1) contains many small sketches of natural history that he later worked up into full-size watercolour illustrations (series 4).

Goyder, recognising his talent and the contribution he could make, supported these endeavours, providing him with materials and time to work with the expedition's naturalist, Friedrich Schultze. After Hoare's return to Adelaide in 1870, he worked as a dispensing chemist before returning to Britain via New Zealand.

George Woodroffe Goyder was appointed Surveyor-General in 1861. He undertook several surveys in northern South Australia (1857-1866) and was instrumental in determining the line of demarcation between agricultural and pastoral land known as Goyder's Line.

The Library holds the papers of William Webster Hoare comprising artworks, photographs, scrapbooks and diary and map kept on the Northern Territory Survey Expedition 1868-1869, and notes about Hoare by Dr Philip Jones from the South Australian Museum.

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