A hand-coloured steel engraving on paper of 'Forest Creek from Road to Castlemaine'. Published by Sands & Kenny in 1856.
Measurements: 18cm x 23cm (Frame: 37cm x 42cm)
Condition: Excellent with no rips, stains, fading or restoration. Frame is sturdy and cosmetically in great condition.
Biography: S.T.Gill arrived in South Australia in 1839 and by March 1840 had established a studio in Adelaide, which was open from ‘eleven till dusk‘; he offered to produce portraits of human beings, horses and dogs, and to sketch houses and transfer the sketches ‘to paper suited for home conveyance‘. In 1846 he accompanied the expedition Horrocks which reached the head of Spencer Gulf.
In 1852 Gill travelled to Victoria and in the next twenty years produced drawings, watercolours and lithographs of scenes of the Victorian and New South Wales goldfields. Gill’s legacy is a large body of work which portrayed life during the greatest gold boom the world had seen.
