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C1862
St. Vincent de Paul’s Orphanage, Emerald Hill.
Artist:
Finely engraved view of the St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage in Emerald Hill [South Melbourne] which was established in 1855 as a boys orphanage. Its name changed in 1967 to St Vincent de Paul Boys’ Home. This is one of … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
St. Vincent de Paul’s Orphanage, Emerald Hill.
Date:
C1862
Artist:
Engraver:
Arthur Wilmore
(1814 –
1888)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
160mm
x 105mm
Paper Size:
277mm
x 207mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1862
Description:
Finely engraved view of the St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage in Emerald Hill [South Melbourne] which was established in 1855 as a boys orphanage. Its name changed in 1967 to St Vincent de Paul Boys’ Home.
This is one of the earliest views of this famous institution. The St Vincent de Paul Society was founded in Australia on 5 March 1854 at St Francis’ Church, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne by Fr. Gerald Ward. Fr Gerald Archbold Ward who was born in London 1806 and migrated to Australia on the 787-ton Digby on 7 September 1850 with Fr Patrick Dunne and 42 other passengers.
Collections:
State Library Victoria: RARELTF 919.45 V66L
State Library Victoria: RARELTF 919.45 V66L
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.
