• Title
  Item 12: [Work on the gold fields, 1850-62] / drawn by William Strutt
• Creator
  William Strutt, 1825-1915
• Call number
  SSV*/Gold/5
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1850-1862
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825568
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pencil and watercolour - 15 x 23.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William Strutt, b. England 1825, d. England 1915; lived in Victoria for 12 years, 1850-1862. A portrait and history painter, he depicted scenes of Ballarat goldfields, bushfires, bush life, portraits, animals, the Burke and Wills exploring expedition, Aboriginal and other mounted police and other portraits. His work is a pictorial record of the colony for the period.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title by cataloguer
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a9659001
• Date note
  
  Undated and unsigned. Dated from the period that William Strutt lived in Victoria
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Gold mines and mining--Victoria.
  
• Topic
  tents
  gold miners
  gold-diggings
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Gold ! - the goldrush days in Australia, from the earliest discoveries to the 1930's - State Library of New South Wales (5 December, 1980 - 26 July, 1981)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE16811061

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