Description
This is a watercolour, the second of a pair, measuring 20.2 cm x 26.4 cm, by Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-80), a famous colonial artist. It shows two gold miners standing near a mine shaft, inspecting a handful of gold, at the edge of a creek. One of the men is leaning on a pick and a panning dish is lying on the ground nearby. Above the mine shaft is a windlass with a bucket attached. The painting has the artist's initials, 'STG', at lower left and the title: 'Gold digging in Australia 1852: fair prospects' at lower right.
Acknowledgements
| Copyright | Reproduced courtesy of National Library of Australia |
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| Creator | Samuel Thomas Gill, artist, 1852 |
| Identifiers | National Library of Australia number nla.pic-an2377337
TLF resource R3387 |
| Source | National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au |
