• Title
  A new rush, 185-? / possibly after S.T. Gill
• Creator
  Samuel Thomas Gill, 1818-1880
• Call number
  DL Pf 22
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  185-?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  931719
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - lithograph, hand-coloured - 16.9 x 25.8 inside frame line, sheet 28 x 38.9 cm. Mounted on cardboard
  
• Scope and Content
  Gold miners are shown at work on the diggings and there are tents labelled 'COFFEE & GINGER BEER', 'BAKER', 'CHEMIST & DRUGIST', etc.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Place of publication London, as in Gill's 'Sunday at the diggings' (DL Pf 20)
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Above the lithograph is printed 'No. 3. SKETCHES OF AUSTRALIAN LIFE AND SCENERY - COMPLETE IN 12 PLATES.'
  
  Beneath it is a paragraph giving an account of the scene
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to Gill because others in the set are related to his work
• Date note
  
  No date
  
  Dated to the time of the gold rushes, with which this set of prints is contemporary
• Conservation note
  
  Foxed, soiled and torn at edges, with remnants of cardboard mat stuck round it
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  gold miners
  gold-diggings
  tents
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8793720

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