New South Wales gold prospecting, ca. 1850-ca. 1860, attributed to an officer of the 11th Regiment o...
New South Wales gold prospecting, ca. 1850-ca. 1860, attributed to an officer of the 11th Regiment o...
New South Wales gold prospecting, ca. 1850-ca. 1860, attributed to an officer of the 11th Regiment of Foot
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1850-ca. 1860
Call Numbers
SV/340
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Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 26.5 x 36.5 cm. - watercolour and pencil
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
A watercolour and pencil drawing depicting a gold mining scene in New South Wales. A digger in the foreground is panning for gold in a creek while beside him another man is operating a cradle. Tents and more prospectors can be seen on a hill in the background. The watercolour shows the two methods of alluvial gold mining, panning and cradling, tha...
Alternative Titles
Full title
New South Wales gold prospecting, ca. 1850-ca. 1860, attributed to an officer of the 11th Regiment of Foot
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Inscription in pencil lower left: 'NSW gold prospecting'.
On verso: 'Gold prospecting New South Wales c 1860 by an officer of the 11th Foot'. [written in contemporary hand].
Attributions / Conjectures
Artist is unknown but attributed to an officer of the 11th Foot as stated in the inscription.
It is also believed this is an early view of Ophir, N.S.W., ca. 1851-ca. 1852, possibly Summer Hill Creek and attributed to the work of George French Angas on stylistic grounds and also that Angas travelled to Ophir in 1851.
Reference:
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Description source
Cataloguing based on inscriptions.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Day Fine Art, December 2018
Collection history
Christie's Travel, Science and Natural History Sale Wednesday 8th October, 2014, Lot 122.
Administrative / Biographical history
The 1st/11th Regiment (North Devonshire) was garrisoned in the colony from 1845 to 1857. The first division of the regiment containing headquarters and three companies, had sailed from Chatham aboard the Castle Eden in July 1845. The remainder of the regiment followed in the Ramilies in August 1845. After service in Sydney they were transferred to...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SV/340
Record Identifier
n5lXzWE9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n5lXzWE9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9623519
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