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442534
  • Title
    Eureka Stockade riot, Ballarat, 1854 / by J. B. Henderson
  • Creator
  • Call number
    SSV2B/Ball/7
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1854
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    442534
  • Physical Description
    Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing - 17 x 23.1 cm.
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Artist John Black Henderson (1827-1918) migrated to Australia in 1851. He worked on the Ballarat goldfields for several months, then joined the Victorian Government Survey Office as a surveyor. By 1877 Henderson was in Sydney and worked in the Colonial Architect's Office until 1903.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    This is probably a later worked-up version of rough sketches made on the diggings. Reference: Dictionary of Australian Artists / by Joan Kerr. Melb, Vic : Oxford University Press, 1992.
    Reproduced, by the Library, as a postcard (Ref. PC 10, copy filed at PXB 188).
    Digital order no:a928052
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    "J. B. Henderson", very faded.
    Title on old mount in Library officer's hand, followed by note in the same hand, which has been copied in pencil on back: "The artist was on the spot a few hours after the riot. The uniforms of the soldiers and the dress of the miners are correctly portrayed".
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  • Subject
  • Topic
  • Place
  • Exhibited in

    Eureka Revisited: the contest of memories - Art Gallery of Ballarat
    All in a Day's work: workers in Australia 1788-1939 - State Library of New South Wales

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