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C1870
Ballarat / Plan of Attack of the "Eureka Stockade" – 3rd. December, 1854.
Scarce plan of the plan of attack for the Eureka Stockade. References: Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 18715. Collections: National Library Australia: Bib ID 2839411 State Library Victoria: H 994.531 B21W Ba State Library New … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Ballarat / Plan of Attack of the "Eureka Stockade" – 3rd. December, 1854.
Date:
C1870
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Lithograph printed in colour.
Image Size:
220mm
x 155mm
Paper Size:
260mm
x 213mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1870
Description:
Scarce plan of the plan of attack for the Eureka Stockade.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 18715.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 2839411
State Library Victoria: H 994.531 B21W Ba
State Library New South Wales: Record Identifier 74VvGrGQlp2b
State Library Victoria:
Francis Wilson Niven (1831 - 1905)
Niven was a lithographic printer and mariner. At the age of 13 he went to sea and was apprenticed to John Sargent, captain of the Stebonheath. Following voyages to Victoria in 1851 and 1853, having gained the rank of first mate (1852), he was discharged in London on 15 June 1854. After prospecting with limited success, Niven decided upon the occupation of printing, specifically lithography, because it suited the artistic disposition he had inherited from his father. He purchased presses for £40 from Alfred Ronalds, a nurseryman at Ballarat who had formerly been a lithographer at Geelong. Niven taught himself to use this equipment with the aid of Ure's Dictionary of Arts. His first known commercial work was assisting with illustrations on Ballarat Punch in 1857. In the 1860s he trained with the lithographic artist Hermann Deutsch in his Bridge Road office. They produced many prints of Ballarat scenes. Between 1863 and 1865 Deutsch sold him the business. Innovation in lithography was a significant part of the firm's success and in 1873 Niven imported one of the earliest known commercial steam lithographic presses in Australia. F. W. Niven & Co. became a large printing business and at its peak employing seventy hands and having some £7000 worth of machinery.
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Douglas Smith Huyghue (1816 - 1891)
Was an Australian and Canadian poet, author and artist. Born April 23, 1816, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and was educated at the Saint John Grammar School. His first published poetry was in the Halifax Morning Post and Parliamentary Reporter, where his work appeared under the pseudonym 'Eugene'. At that time Huyghue also assisted province’s commissioner of Indian affairs in arranging an exhibition of Indian artefacts. In the late 1840s he moved to England, and then immigrated to Australia on the Lady Peel in 1852. In 1853 he became a clerk in the Office of Mines in the Ballarat goldfields, where he witnessed the Eureka Stockade revolt of 1854. His watercolor, "The Eureka Stockade," is exhibited at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. He continued working as a civil servant in Ballarat and Graytown.
