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Victorian gold
The gold rush and its impact on cultural life
 
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Introduction
Life on the Goldfields
Significant Arrivals
A city's progress
 
Edward RoperWilliam StruttST GillOswald CampbellCuthbert Clarke  
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ST Gill
born England 1818, died Australia 1880

1852
lithograph
20.8 x 15.7 cm (sheet); 17.8 x 11.0 cm irreg. (comp.)
The University of Melbourne Art Collection
Gift of the Russell and Mab Grimwade Bequest 1973
1973.0365

"The work, to which we are all new, was somewhat arduous at first, and caused much backache and blistering of hands."

Diary of Eugène von Guérard, 23 January 1853.

Cited Tipping, M, An Artist on the Goldfields. The Diary of Eugène von Guérard, Victoria, 1982, p. 40.

ST Gill: Marking the claim
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          The Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne