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SUMMARY: S.T. Gill accompanied John Ainsworth Horrocks' small expedition from July to September 1846. This gave him material to use for many years. As demand for expedition retrospectives declined, Gill adapted scenes and made them more generic.
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Listed below are the main articles related to the 1846 Horrocks expedition and Gill's works from the expedition.
S.T. Gill accompanied John Ainsworth Horrocks' small expedition from July to September 1846. This gave him material to use for many years. As demand for expedition retrospectives declined, Gill adapted scenes and made them more generic.
Initial focus on the expedition meant including the expeditioners in scenes. However it seems Gill omitted expeditioners after Horrocks left the party for medical assistance.
As demand for expedition retrospectives declined, Gill adapted scenes and made them more generic. Flinders Ranges landscapes and kangaroo hunt are subjects Gill made more generic than their original Horrocks expedition contexts.
This project links to several articles on J.A. Horrocks, his 1846 expedition and S.T. Gill's related works (which tended to the generic over time). This article provides a structural overview of their contents.
1840. Two portraits of John Ainsworth Horrocks known only by early black and white photographs. I attribute them to Gill and date them to early 1840.
In July 1846 Gill gave a supper for friends before leaving on John Horrocks' expedition, this being the subject of an oddly lengthy newspaper report. Featuring Australia's first camel, a dubious newspaper reporter and unidentified expeditioners.
S.T. Gill accompanied John Ainsworth Horrocks' small expedition from July to September 1846. Both Gill and Horrocks made expedition journals. This article reproduces Horrocks' journals as it was transcribed and published in 1906.
S.T. Gill accompanied John Ainsworth Horrocks' small expedition from July to September 1846. This article focusses on Gill's artistic work on the expedition, rather than his exhibition works after returning.
September 1846 to January 1847. Gill develops his series of 33 works of the Horrocks' expedition, raffled and shown at the February 1847 Exhibition of Pictures.
S.T. Gill accompanied John Ainsworth Horrocks' small expedition from July to September 1846. This article has a selection of retrospective works on the subject that are outside the scope of Gill's South Australian period catalogue.
S.T. Gill continued to portray South Australia after he left there in early 1852. This article lists works I think are Gill's retrospectives of South Australia, with an emphasis on the works Appleyard dated in the South Australian years.
David Coombe. Updated 15 December 2025. | text copyright (except where indicated)
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