• Title
  Osmond Gilles, landowner, 1849 / lithograph by S.T. Gill
• Creator
  Samuel Thomas Gill, 1818-1880
• Call number
  P1/627
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1849
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Prints
• Reference code
  887458
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - lithograph - image 15.5 cm diameter ; in mount 20 cm square
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In 1849 a series of twenty-two lithographed drawings of prominent South Australian citizens called 'Heads of the People' was published in Adelaide; Gill sketched these from life and drew them on the stone, and at the time the portraits were accepted as admirable likenesses.
  
  Reference:
  S.T. Gill entry in: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/ (accessed February 8, 2010)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Gilles, Osmond (BM), February 2010
  
  A copy of this print is held in the Mortlock Pictorial Collection, State Library of South Australia
  Digital order no:a4216027
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Nothing like O.G." -- printed on the lower edge of the print
  "S.T.G." -- printed beneath the walking stick in the print
  "Osmond Gilles, a great landowner, South Australia" -- in pencil on the lower edge of the print
• Name
  Gilles, Osmond, 1788-1866
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  landowners
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3277571

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