Description
This is a hand-coloured lithographic print that shows a digger (miner) auctioning his mining equipment at the Eaglehawk gold fields near Bendigo in Victoria. A small crowd is shown gathered around the digger and part of the Eaglehawk tent settlement can be seen behind him. The print is from a watercolour painting by Samuel Thomas Gill and appeared as a plate in Gill's book 'Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are' published in 1853. The print measures 15.8 cm x 19.5 cm.
Acknowledgements
| Copyright | Reproduced courtesy of National Library of Australia |
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| Creator | Samuel Thomas Gill, artist, 1853 H H Collins and Company, publisher, 1853 |
| Identifiers | National Library of Australia number nla.pic-an7537593
TLF resource R3052 |
| Source | National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au |
