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SUMMARY: This project contains several articles on S.T. Gill at the Victorian diggings and his works of 1852 and 1853. This page lists the articles in chronological order.
Article type: CONTENTS page
NOTE: the first page in the list is this page.
This project contains several articles on S.T. Gill at the Victorian diggings and his works of 1852 and 1853. This page lists the articles in chronological order.
Article type: Contents
S.T. Gill left South Australia for the Victorian gold rush. This article evaluates evidence for his passage and concludes he likely left with others of a cultural bent aboard 'Anna Dixon', February 1852.
Article type: Narrative, Analysis
S.T. Gill was at the Diggings in June and July 1852, judging by dated works and a newspaper report. He sought a lithographic partnership. There may be only one field sketch extant.
Article type: Catalogue, Narrative, Analysis
Gill returned to Melbourne completing two series of 24 monochrome diggings lithographs in August and October 1852. George French Angas visits! Two large watercolours of Forest Creek and Bendigo; large coloured lithograph of Forest Creek, March 1853.
Article type: Catalogue, Narrative
Diggers on way to Bendigo was a frequent subject of Gill's showing diggers on the road. It represents diggers moving from one diggings (Forest Creek) to better prospects at another (Bendigo).
Article type: Subject
Gill made preparatory sketches in only a small sketch book for each lithograph in his 'Sketches of the Victoria Diggings and Diggers as they are'. He scaled these to then draw on the stone.
Article type: Catalogue, Analysis
Gill's 'Sketches of the Victoria Diggings and Diggers as they are' were published as lithographs by Macartney and Galbraith in 1852 in two parts. Part 1 was published in August 1852.
Article type: Catalogue, Analysis
The weight of evidence is against Angas' presence at the Victorian diggings. He visited Gill in Melbourne in August 1852 and again used Gill's pictures for his own publication. This further cements the role of Gill as a ghost artist for Angas.
Article type: Catalogue, Narrative, Analysis
Gill's 'Sketches of the Victoria Diggings and Diggers as they are' were published as lithographs by Macartney and Galbraith in 1852 in two parts. Part 2 was published in October 1852.
Article type: Catalogue
This map shows the route(s) from Melbourne to the Victorian diggings and S. T. Gill's 1852 views on this route.
This map shows S. T. Gill's views of the Victorian diggings in 1852. Most works are of a general nature, but those that can be reasonably mapped are included.
David Coombe. Original 4 January 2026. Updated 5 January 20026. | text copyright (except where indicated)
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