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Finely engraved view of Kyneton in the 1860’s, looking towards the bridge. On the right at 68 Piper Street is Francis and Perkins, chemist, next door to that at 70 Piper Street is Samuel Atwood’s Dowling Brothers’ draper store which … Read Full Description
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Finely engraved view of Kyneton in the 1860’s, looking towards the bridge.
On the right at 68 Piper Street is Francis and Perkins, chemist, next door to that at 70 Piper Street is Samuel Atwood’s Dowling Brothers’ draper store which had been there by 1858.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 9924b.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney, 1987 : 261a.
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State Library Victoria: RARELTF 919.45 V66L
National Library Australia: Bib ID: 737884
State Library New South Wales: Record Identifier 74VvrPKegmll
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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