page_title: Edward Snell (engineer)
section_title: Artistic works
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Snell (engineer) / Artistic works
caption_attribution_description: English: The St George and the Arethusa on the Hamoaze near Bull Point, signed l.r.: Edwd Snell/ The St George, and Arethusa/ on the Hamoaze near Bull Point. Jan 1860, with paddle tug Fairy oil on canvas 44.5 by 59.5 cm., 17 1/2 by 23 1/3 in.
context_page_description: Edward Snell was a diarist, artist, civil engineer and surveyor, responsible for the design of the Geelong – Melbourne Railway for the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company.
context_section_description: While the illustrations in his diaries and engineering drawings constitute his primary artistic output, his sketches, water colours and oil paintings form a moderate compendium of works of some note. Examples Include:
  HMS 'St George' and 'Arethusa' on the Hamoaze near Bull Point.
  The "Frolic" crossing Yorke's Peninsula, 14 June 1850, watercolour.
  Prospect of Swindon Railway Works and Village, Wiltshire Two watercolours of the new locomotive works and railway village in Swindon 1849.
  Geelong and Melbourne Railway Teminus, colour lithograph Quarrill & Co. August 1854.
  Williamstown Hobson's Bay, 1854 lithographed R. Quarrill & Co., [Melbourne] 1854.
  Kangaroo Hunting Yorkes (sic) Peninsula,  watercolour, 18 August 1850.
  Edward Snell's diary is a frank account of his time in Australia was not written for publication and has a frank, intimate and irreverent flavour. It is illustrated profusely with detailed and humorous watercolours and sketches.  Snell's diary is one of three State Library of Victoria goldfields records listed in the Australian Register of the Memory of the World.
caption: HMS St George and Arethusa on the Hamoaze near Bull Point
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