• Title
  Wet Tar, Pasminco, Broken Hill, 2005 / drawing by Jeff Rigby
• Call number
  XV/181
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  2005
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1006317
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - charcoal on paper - visible image 61 x 48.5 cm, on paper 76 x 56.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Gold was first discovered in the Barrier Ranges near Broken Hill in the 1860s, although the key period of lucrative exploration for gold, silver, tin and lead did not really begin until 1875, and lasted about 10 years. In 1883, Charles Rasp collected samples of what he thought was tin and these turned out to be the largest and richest lodes of silver and lead in the world. The "syndicate of seven", led by Rasp, leaseholders at Mount Gipps, became the "company of fourteen" and by 1885 had formed Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP). The township of Broken Hill began to dominate the region from 1885 and by 1891, its population had exploded to 20,000, becoming the third largest metropolis in New South Wales. BHP ceased work at Broken Hill in 1940 and mining gradually went into decline. With only one mining operator remaining in Broken Hill, the artist, captivated by the isolation and romance of the town, and the remnants of its once great industry, created this series of industrial landscapes between 1997 and 2006.
  References:
  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/bioregions/BrokenHillComplex-RegionalHistory.htm (accessed 16/02/2017) and Library correspondence file.
• Scope and Content
  Charcoal drawing, 2005, from the artists Broken Hill series in the Places of Industry collection, exhibited in 2006
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: Jeff Rigby
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Jeff Rigby
• General note
  
  Exhibited in 'Places of Industry; When Workers Unite', Trades and Labor Council, Broken Hill, 2006
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower right 'Jeff Rigby 05'. Inscribed lower centre margin, 'Wet Tar, Pasminco, Broken Hill'.
• Subject
  Art, Australian--20th century.
  Artists--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Artists, Australian--20th century.
  Mining--Australia--Pictorial works.
  Mining--Australia.
  Broken Hill Proprietary Company.
  
• Place
  Broken Hill (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE10366147

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