• Title
  The shepherd, ca. 1860s / Samuel Thomas Gill
• Creator
  Samuel Thomas Gill, 1818-1880
• Call number
  DL 43
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, North Wall, no. 132
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1860s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  840373
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil mounted on wood - circular with diameter 18.4 cm: on a 22 cm squared canvas
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  A wood engraving very similar to this work was published in the Illustrated Sydney News on 3 October 1868, p.5. The engraving was titled "Life in the Bush: Shepherding." Text describes the painting on page 8 of the same issue.
  Transferred from DL Pb 7
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'S.T.G.' at lower left
  Title and 'S.T. Gill' in pencil on verso in Sir William Dixson's hand
• Date note
  
  Dated from his arrival in Australia and his death
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  shepherds
  bush life
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9327553

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