Burke and Wills Expedition / Samuel Thomas Gill
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    Record title

    Burke and Wills Expedition / Samuel Thomas Gill

    Call numbers

    DGA 15

    Record identifier

    9WZMgEaY

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9WZMgEaY

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    Burke and Wills Expedition / Samuel Thomas Gill

    Full title

    Burke and Wills Expedition / Samuel Thomas Gill

    Author / Creator

    Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1818-1880

    Date

    ca. 1860-1861

    Call Numbers

    DGA 15

    Record Identifier

    9WZMgEaY

    Formats

    Pictures and Watercolours

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    Drawings - each image approx. 20.6 cm. x 33.2 cm. pasted onto backing card approx. 27.3 cm. x 47.8 cm.; largest image 21.6 cm. x 33.6 cm. - f.6 removed from backing and hinged into window mount - 10 watercolour drawings

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Access and use

    Copying Conditions

    Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955

    Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

    Access Conditions

    Ask a Librarian online or in the reading room.

    Issue Copy

    Digitised

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Cooper Creek (Qld.) Royal Park (Melbourne, Vic.) Sturt Stony Desert (S.A.) Aboriginal peoples (Australians) camels colonial art exploration landscapes (artwork) watercolours Adult Males Burke and Wills Expedition (1860-1861)

    More information

    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    [Spelling as on originals]
    1. Bourk's Expidition starting from Royal Park Melbourne
    2. Crossing Lodden Plains
    3. Camp at Cooper's Creek
    4. Pioneer party leaving Cooper's Creek
    5. Crossing the Stoney Desert
    6. Arrival at Carpentaria
    7. Return to Coopers Ck
    8. Death of Wills
    9. Death of Bourke
    10. Discovery of King with...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    Burke and Wills Expedition / Samuel Thomas Gill

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    — NOTES

    General note

    Each except f.6 is signed "STG" or "S.T.G." in lower left hand corner of image; some signatures have been inked over. f.6 unsigned

    All are titled in ink at lower right corner of image. On f.8 the painted title has been inked over

    Numbered in pencil at top right corner of mount

    Digital order no:Album ID : 823645

    Date note

    Dated from Burke & Wills expedition

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Exhibited in

    Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait.

    Blighted paradise : colonial visions of Northern Australia

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    DGA 15

    Record Identifier

    9WZMgEaY

    Permalink

    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9WZMgEaY

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    447373

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