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C1869
The Gold Robbery Near Rockhampton and the Murder of Mr. Halligan.
Very rare colonial lithographs of the final moments of Patrick Halligan (1838 -1869) was an Irish-Australian hotel licensee and gold buyer who was murdered in Rockhampton, Queensland on 25 April 1869. He was attacked and murdered returning from the Morinish … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Gold Robbery Near Rockhampton and the Murder of Mr. Halligan.
Date:
C1869
Condition:
In good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Lithograph.
Image Size:
500mm
x 365mm
Paper Size:
535mm
x 415mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1869
Description:
Very rare colonial lithographs of the final moments of Patrick Halligan (1838 -1869) was an Irish-Australian hotel licensee and gold buyer who was murdered in Rockhampton, Queensland on 25 April 1869. He was attacked and murdered returning from the Morinish gold fields, Queensland on Sunday, April 25, 1869. He was held up by two men, George Palmer and Jack Williams and shot as he recognised Palmer. Another man, Alex Archibald, a publican of the Lion Creek Hotel, was also found guilty of the murder as he planned the hold up. All three men were sent to the gallows in Rockhampton.
From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
Collections:
State Library Queensland: Record number 21148641410002061
State Library Queensland: Record number 21148641410002061
Eugene Montagu (Monty) Scott (1835 - 1909)
Scott was a cartoonist and illustrator, in London, migrated to Victoria in the 1850s and worked as a photographer. On 20 July 1859 in Melbourne he married Amy Johnson. In 1857-65 he contributed drawings and cartoons to the Illustrated Australian Mail, Illustrated Melbourne Post and Melbourne Punch. In 1866 Scott moved to Sydney as chief cartoonist for the Sydney Punch. In 1867 he received a 250 guineas commission for a portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh. He was established in a photographic salon in George Street and in the 1870s his large wood-engravings and lithographs of rugged outdoor scenes, formal functions and public personalities regularly enlivened the Illustrated Sydney News. Bankrupt in June 1870, Scott was forced to sell his photographic equipment to meet his creditors. In 1871 the Sydney Mail employed him as its first artist. From 1880 the Bulletin carried some cartoons and occasional engravings of local dignitaries by Scott. The Brisbane Boomerang, founded 1887, ran his cartoons until 1891 when he drew the first cartoons for the Queensland Worker, continuing as its chief cartoonist until 1909. In 1889 he had moved to Brisbane and on 5 December married a widow, Mary Ellen Price, née Mehan; he lived there four years. In the ensuing years Montagu received less work as photographic illustrations replaced engravings and lithographs.
