This is probably a later worked-up version of rough sketches made on the diggings. Reference: Dictionary of Australian Artists / by Joan Kerr. Melb, Vic : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Reproduced, by the Library, as a postcard (Ref. PC 10, copy filed at PXB 188).

Digital order no:a928052

"J. B. Henderson", very faded.
Title on old mount in Library officer's hand, followed by note in the same hand, which has been copied in pencil on back: "The artist was on the spot a few hours after the riot. The uniforms of the soldiers and the dress of the miners are correctly portrayed".

Presented by W.J.H. Harris, 1969

Artist John Black Henderson (1827-1918) migrated to Australia in 1851. He worked on the Ballarat goldfields for several months, then joined the Victorian Government Survey Office as a surveyor. By 1877 Henderson was in Sydney and worked in the Colonial Architect's Office until 1903.

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