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C1870
The Gravel Pits, Ballaarat. Spt. 1854 sic
Scarce colonial view of the Gravel Pits, Ballarat. The Gravel Pits were where the Golden Point Lead traverses the centre of Ballarat. It is one of the areas of early activity during the initial gold rush of the early 1850’s, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Gravel Pits, Ballaarat. Spt. 1854 sic
Date:
C1870
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
136mm
x 80mm
Paper Size:
210mm
x 130mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1870
Description:
Scarce colonial view of the Gravel Pits, Ballarat.
The Gravel Pits were where the Golden Point Lead traverses the centre of Ballarat. It is one of the areas of early activity during the initial gold rush of the early 1850’s, being a hive of activity as individual miners dug over the yellow gravels in search of gold nuggets
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: 18713.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 6846879
State Library Victoria: H 994.531 B21W Ba
State Library New South Wales: CALL NUMBERS DSM/992.2/1A1
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: 18713.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 6846879
State Library Victoria: H 994.531 B21W Ba
State Library New South Wales: CALL NUMBERS DSM/992.2/1A1
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.
