Collection of printed illustrations, mainly Victorian scenes, 1845-1891 / Edward Gilks

PXD 347

fonds

1845-1891

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Prints, Drawings, Watercolours

840168

2 albums (253 engravings, photographs, drawings and prints) - pencil, watercolour, some colour - 60 x 76 cm (album)

Included in the collection are lithographs, woodcuts, engravings, photographic lithograhs, photographs and sketches. The volume may have been compiled by Gilks compared with handwriting of contents lists with signatures and inscriptions to show samples of his work and that of other engravers, printers and publishers working in Victoria. These include Nicholas Chevalier, Charles Troedel, David Tulloch, Campbell and Ferguson, Fergusson and Mitchell, Samuel Calvert, S.T. Gill, James J. Blundell, R. Jenny, F.Cogne, A.J. Stopps, F. Quarrill, E. Thomas, Wragg, T. Ham, J. Noone, J. & G.R. Ashton, Richard Shepherd, Cyrus Mason, G.A. Appleton, J.B. Philp. Some samples have been cut from newspapers and periodicals, and there are some early photographic lithographs by R.W. Niven (ca. 1853). There are four sketches by Gilks, and a lithograph on linen as well as progress proofs of a number of views.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

For sketches on which a number of Gilk's lithographs are probably based, see his watercolours and pencil sketches at PXD 79.

The volume was disbound in 1979, the prints individually cleaned and backed, and new volumes made in SLNSW.

Keyword subjects:
Troedel, Charles
Blundell, James J.
Quarrill, F
Thomas, E.
Wragg
Ham, T.
Noone, J.
Mason, Cyrus
Appleton, G.A.

Some samples have been cut from newspapers and periodicals, and there are some early photographic lithographs by R.W. Niven (ca. 1853). lThere are four sketches by Gilks, and a lithograph on linen as well as progress proofs of a number of views.