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Title
William John Wills, ca. 1861? / Thomas Adams Hill
Creator
Thomas Adams Hill, active 1856-1869
Call number
P2/354
Level of description
fonds
Date

Melbourne, Vic. : Fergusson & Mitchell
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Prints
Reference code
844628
Physical Description
1 print - engraving - 31.5 x 25.5 cm, oval, on sheet 43 x 33 cm
Description source

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

Titled from engraved (?) signature and legend beneath image 'William John Wills/2nd in command of the Victorian Expedition'. Publisher statement 'Published by Fergusson & Mitchell; Melbourne, Victoria' beneath legend.

A lithograph by E. Gilks, in which the sitter faces left rather than right as in the engraving, but which may be from the same photograph by T.A. Hill, is filed at DG P2/24, and P2/349.
Signatures / Inscriptions

'Photd by T.A. Hill Engd. by H.S. Sadd' engraved beneath image
Attributions / conjectures

The photograph on which the engraving is based may be ambrotype portrait at MIN 50.
Date note

Approximately dated after comparison with similar image, E. Gilks' lithograph of Wills, 1861 (DG P2/24) which is also 'from a photograph by Hill'.
Name
Burke and Wills Expedition (1860-1861)
Wills, William John, 1834-1861
Subject
Art, Colonial--Australia.
Adult Males
Topic
portraits
explorers

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