C1857

Forest Creek from Road to Castlemaine.

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Scarce, c.19th hand coloured engraved view of Forest Creek, from the road to Castlemaine. Forest Creek was the main area of the Mount Alexander gold rush following the discovery of rich alluvial gold in 1851. The diggings rapidly became one … Read Full Description

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S/N: VILL-VC-0107–199024

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Full Title:

Forest Creek from Road to Castlemaine.

Date:

C1857

Artist:

Samuel Thomas Gill (1818 - 1880)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

165mm

x 110mm

Paper Size:

279mm

x 207mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1857

Description:

Scarce, c.19th hand coloured engraved view of Forest Creek, from the road to Castlemaine.

Forest Creek was the main area of the Mount Alexander gold rush following the discovery of rich alluvial gold in 1851. The diggings rapidly became one of the largest and most important goldfields in Victoria, attracting thousands of miners from across Australia and overseas. By late 1851, the Forest Creek had developed into an extensive settlement of tents, stores and mining claims. The discovery at Golden Point in October 1851 was particularly significant in establishing the richness of the field.

References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 9924, 15440b.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 260a, 260b.
Kerr, J. The Dictionary of Australian Artists Painters, Sketchers, Photographers….to 1870 Melbourne 1992 p.296-298.
Bowden, K. Samuel Thomas Gill Artist. Maryborough 1971 p.77-81, p.120.

Collections:
State Library Victoria: RARELTF 919.45 V66 A
National Library Australia: Bib ID 453023
State Library New South Wales: Q85/66

Samuel Thomas Gill (1818 - 1880)

Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-1880) S.T. Gill as he is often now known, was born at Somerset, England, the son of Rev. Samuel Gill, Baptist minister, and educated at Plymouth in a school kept by his parents, and later at Dr Seabrook's academy. His father taught him drawing and he was later employed in London as 'Draftsman and Water Colour Painter' by the Hubard Profile Gallery, an establishment which produced silhouettes. He arrived in South Australia in 1839 and by March 1840 had established a studio in Gawler Place, Adelaide, which was open from 'eleven till dusk'; he offered to produce portraits of human beings, horses and dogs, and to sketch houses and transfer the sketches 'to paper suited for home conveyance'. In 1846 he accompanied the Horrock's expedition which reached the head of Spencer Gulf. In 1852 Gill travelled to the Victoria and in the next twenty years produced drawings, watercolours and lithographs of scenes of the Victorian and New South Wales gold fields. After 1870 Gill fell into obscurity and on 27 October 1880 he collapsed in Post Office Place, Melbourne, and was found to be dead when taken to hospital. Gill's legacy is a large body of work which portrayed life during the greatest gold boom the world had ever seen.

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