Sketches of the gold diggers comprising 16 lithographic plates [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 1420959
- Format:
- Picture
- Description:
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- London (New Broad Street Court, Bishopsgate) : J. Luntley & Co., printers & publishers, [ca. 1853]
- 16 prints : lithograph, hand col. ; container 21.5 x 13.8 cm.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Road to Bendigo diggings
- 2. Mount Alexander
- 3. Licensing
- 4. Marking the claim
- 5. Disputing the claim
- 6. Fossicking
- 7. Surfacing
- 8. Nuggetting
- 9. Washing & puddling
- 10. Family diggers
- 11. Refreshment tent
- 12. Butcher's stores
- 13. Homeward bound
- 14. Digger's wedding
- 15. Digger returned home
- 16. Digger that never returned.
- Notes:
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- Plates are signed l.r. J. Luntley & Co.; based on sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are / by S.T.G.
- In a yellow-paper envelope.
- Not in Ferguson or Bowden.
- S2750-S2765 not col.; S2766-2775 incomplete (pl. no. 3-6, 9-13, 15 only) not col., mounted on card.
- Cited In:
- Wantrup, J. Australian rare books, 1788-1900, 252b.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Engraving
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1880
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1853
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