• Title
  Life on the diggings, 1851-1854 / Charlie Abbold
• Creator
  Charlie Abbold
• Call number
  DL PX 54
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1851-1854
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  826144
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : DL PX 54
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  20 drawings (1 volume) - ink - various sizes
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 The Hon. Adolphus Augustus Fitzfiggings as he appeared on the poop of the Ship Fortune Seeker
  f.2 Tom Jones as he appeared having a yarn with the Sailors on bord the Ship Fortune Seeker
  f.3 Ton [sic] Jones - as he appeared Six months after his arrival in the Colony
  f.4 Disinterested Storekeeper exhibits a half pound nugget to New Chums - telling them "that it was discovered in the immediate neighbourhood in 4ft. Sinking &c &c"
  f.5 New Chums - Thinks the heat intolerable - and wonders where such a jolly lot of flies come from!
  f.6 The next day he finds it very cold and wonders when it leave off raining
  f.7 Gentleman from the Bush who is of opinion that the can "take it out of any man in the Room"
  f.8 "I'm a b-y Vandemonian. I served my b-y time like a b-y man and can pull my b-y shirt off a[nd] shew my b-y marks -"
  f.9 Gold Commissioner - having to settle a despute between a Tipperary boy and a Cape of Good Hope German, comes to the conclusion that "they had better settle it between themselves"
  f.10 Policeman (greatly excited) - "Come up out of that hole and shew your Licenses." Voice from the Bowels of the Earth - "No fear Cockey"
  f.11 Pensioner Guard - after consulting the state of his bottle pronounces "All's well"
  f.12 "Will you give us a light of the pipe mate?"
  f.13 A Bendigo Ball
  f.14 High wind on the Diggings
  f.15 Bashful young man - who candidly admits that he has only been 18 months in the colony - that he comes from a small Town called London - thinks that he has heard of a place called White Chapel - considers the Londoners in general to be very Green - knows wery little hisself &c &c
  f.16 Nobblerised Digger attacked by a few dogs
  f.17 "Argus"
  f.18 Brother Jonithan on the Diggings
  f.19 Sporting Man from Barnet - tries his hand with a Buck jumper
  f.20 Colonial gin & water
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Digital order no: Album ID : 1184276
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  None of the drawings is signed or dated. There is an illuminated title page showing a mining scene and the following title, 'Life on the diggings, designed and etched by Charlie Abbold'. There is an inscription in upper right corner reading, 'W.J. Rice Bendigo 1854' which dates the drawings, probably of Bendigo, between 1851, when gold was discovered, and 1854. A pencil note at upper left reads, 'Bendigo April 1854 Bendigo'.
• Subject
  Gold mines and mining--Victoria--Bendigo.
  Aboriginal Australians.
  
• Topic
  cartoons
  miners
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE652958

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