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C1887
Fryer’s Creek, Near Castlemaine, 1852.
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Engraving of the of the gold diggings at Fryer’s Creek, near Castlemaine. In the late 1851, the discovery of significant alluvial gold deposits near Fryers Creek in the Mount Alexander diggings triggered a gold rush to the area. The creek … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Fryer’s Creek, Near Castlemaine, 1852.
Date:
C1887
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
140mm
x 82mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1887
Description:
Engraving of the of the gold diggings at Fryer’s Creek, near Castlemaine.
In the late 1851, the discovery of significant alluvial gold deposits near Fryers Creek in the Mount Alexander diggings triggered a gold rush to the area. The creek was named after Peter Fryer, who was a pastoralist that owned the land for grazing at the time. Fryer’s Forest, which later became Fryerstown, and Golden Gully were some of the initial settlements in the vicinity of the creek.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 16439.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 4084242
State Library Victoria: CCF 994.5 V66S
State Library New South Wales: 74Vv5vQ4lxmZ
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976: 16439.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 4084242
State Library Victoria: CCF 994.5 V66S
State Library New South Wales: 74Vv5vQ4lxmZ
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976: 16439.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 4084242
State Library Victoria: CCF 994.5 V66S
State Library New South Wales: 74Vv5vQ4lxmZ
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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