Hungry Station Shepherds Hut and Sheep Yard in the district of Adelaide South Australia, 1851 / Thomas Thomas

SSV3B/1

fonds

1851

Graphic Materials, Drawings

447188

Drawings - 1 pen and ink sketch - 23.2 x 14 cm. - Sketched on reverse of a published sheet

Thomas Thomas is known by three ink sketches filed at SSV3B/1-3. See Kerr, Joan (ed.), Dictionary of Australian artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992

Titled and dated below sketch
Sheet torn from engraved map of Europe
Surface damage between the words ""Hungry"" and ""Station"" appears to be accidental, but spacing may indicate that a word has been scratched out

""1 is the frame on which the Hut Keeper suspends his Sheep. 2 is the Shepherds Hut, 3 is the Watch Box in which the Hut Keeper or Shepherd sleeps at night, 4 is the Hurdle Yard for the Sheep at night time"" -- key to numbering in sketch, inscribed below title
""Tho Thomas"" -- signed at lower centre
""old England I love thee still"" -- inscribed in pencil on printed map on reverse, beneath south-west corner of England