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C1857
View on the Yarra, near Dights Mill.
Artist:
Early engraving of the area near Dights Falls (Abbotsford) on the Yarra, just downstream of the junction with the Merri Creek. John Dight, a miller of Campbelltown, NSW, acquired land, on 7 November 1838 and over the next few years, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
View on the Yarra, near Dights Mill.
Date:
C1857
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
180mm
x 150mm
Paper Size:
280mm
x 206mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1857
Description:
Early engraving of the area near Dights Falls (Abbotsford) on the Yarra, just downstream of the junction with the Merri Creek. John Dight, a miller of Campbelltown, NSW, acquired land, on 7 November 1838 and over the next few years, he built a brick mill on the site and began the production of flour. In November 1843, ownership of the land passed to John Dight and his brother Charles Hilton Dight.
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.
