• Title
  Goldfield sketches, [185-] / S.T. Gill
• Creator
  Samuel Thomas Gill, 1818-1880
• Call number
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/6
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/7
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/8
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/9
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/10
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/11
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  185-
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  932099
• Physical Description
  6 prints (1 portfolio) - lithographs, proofs
  
• Scope and Content
  Four images in each print
  
  Captions under images:
  
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/6
  1. 'Pedestrian, - Arrah Phil are you there? Equestrian - 'es Jerry they've been a rigging me all along the gully, but aint I got the yellow'
  2. 'Successful diggers from Bendigo'
  3. 'Diggers on the way to Bendigo'
  4. 'Mount Alexander, Gold escort to Melbourne'
  
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/7
  1. 'Approach to Eagle Hawk Gully from the road to Bendigo'
  2. Iron Bank Gully, from the road to Bendigo
  3. 'A Bendigo mill'
  4. 'On Bendigo Creek'
  
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/8
  The same print as at V* / Sp Coll / Gill / 6
  
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/9
  1. 'Wayfaring diggers'
  2. 'Iron Bank'
  3. 'Interesting statement on the quality of the stuff'
  4. 'Gold taken via Bendigo or elsewhere, contributions insisted upon, -voluntary principles despised'
  
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/10
  1. 'The invalid digger'
  2. 'Diggers on route to deposit gold'
  3. 'The newly arrived enquiring'
  4. 'Diggers of high degree'
  
  V*/Sp Coll/Gill/11
  1. 'Cradling, Forrest Creek'
  2. 'Digger's hut, Forrest Creek'
  3. 'Diggers' auction, Eagle Hawk, Bendigo
  4. 'Mounted police, gold escort, Mt Alexander'
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 997219
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  gold-diggings
  sketches
  gold washing cradles
  gold miners
  gold panning
  mounted police
  tents
  boxing (sports)
  huts
  horses
  wagons
  
• Place
  Victoria
  Bendigo (Vic.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE376422

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