Ease without Opulence, 1860-1869? / Samuel Thomas Gill
Ease without Opulence, 1860-1869? / Samuel Thomas Gill
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1860-1869?
Call Numbers
DL Pd 75
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 print - on sheet 25 x 19.3 cm, trimmed to within border, mounted on cardboard - lithograph, cream-tinted ground
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
A humorous study of bootblack, subject is accompanied by a dog and has beside him his bootblack's box, on his knee is a copy of 'Bells life in ...ia' perhaps 'Bells life in Victoria' which was published 1857-68
Alternative Titles
Full title
Ease without Opulence, 1860-1869? / Samuel Thomas Gill
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Companion piece to: DL Pd 74, DL Pd 76 and DL Pd 77
Mitchell Library has copies of this lithograph in *D384 and also of the other larger version with imprint 'Melbourne, Prints for the Proprietor by De Gruchy & Leigh, 43 Elizabeth St.'
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed on stone 'S.T.G.', Sir William Dixson's no. '21' in pencil at lower left
Date note
Dated to overlapping periods of activity of Gill and De Gruchy & Leigh who published a different version of this lithograph in Melbourne
Conservation note
Piece torn from lower edge, glue marks on back, mount trimmed a little to fit Pd, mount has holes in it as though once pinned up with thumb tacks, tinted area has rounded corners at top
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: 4096
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL Pd 75
Record Identifier
9PQ88Mln
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9PQ88Mln
Other Identifiers
Reference code
901630
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