The way Her Majesty's Mails and the public protectors are served in New South Wales [a view], 1850-1...
The way Her Majesty's Mails and the public protectors are served in New South Wales [a view], 1850-1...
The way Her Majesty's Mails and the public protectors are served in New South Wales [a view], 1850-1859? / Samuel Thomas Gill
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
London : 1850-1859?
Call Numbers
DL Pf 27
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 print - 18.9 x 28.1 cm inside frame line, on sheet 28.2 x 38.9 cm, mounted on cardboard - lithograph, hand coloured
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Passengers of a mail coach and police are shown being robbed by bushrangers
Alternative Titles
Full title
The way Her Majesty's Mails and the public protectors are served in New South Wales [a view], 1850-1859? / Samuel Thomas Gill
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Attributed to Gill because others in the set are related to pictures by him, but this does not resemble his work
Signature / Inscriptions
Above the lithograph is printed 'No 10 Sketches of Australian life & scenery - complete in 12 plates', beneath it is a paragraph giving an account of the scene, and '[Copyright, entered at Stationers Hall]', '7' in pencil in lower right corner of sheet
Attributions / Conjectures
Place of publication as Gill's Sunday at the diggings at: DL Pf 20
Date note
Dated to the time of the gold rushes, with which this set of prints is contemporary
Conservation note
Soiled with tears and pieces missing at edges and remnants of cardboard mount stuck round it
Description source
Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952
Spencer List number: 125 P
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL Pf 27
Record Identifier
9Bv77E69
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9Bv77E69
Other Identifiers
Reference code
902023
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