Description
This is a coloured print, measuring 19.8 cm x 25 cm, painted by the famous colonial artist Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-80) and published in 'The Australian Sketchbook'. It shows three masked bushrangers holding up the Royal Mail coach with shotguns and muskets. Their horses are hidden in nearby shrubs. The Mail is shown crowded with alarmed passengers and pulled by startled and rearing horses. The painting has the initials 'STG' in the bottom left-hand corner, with the title, 'Attacking the mail, bushranging, NSW 1864', underneath.
Acknowledgements
| Copyright | Reproduced courtesy of National Library of Australia |
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| Creator | Samuel Thomas Gill, artist, 1864 Hamel and Ferguson, printer, 1865 |
| Identifiers | National Library of Australia number nla.pic-an7149198
TLF resource R3383 |
| Source | National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au |
