A. Birrill

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A. Birrill's watercolour of a mine in Ballarat is held by the Mitchell Library. Given the date of its execution the work is thought to have been painted retrospectively - the mine it depicts was not operating until three years after the initial painting was done.
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watercolourist, is known only for a Victorian gold-mining scene, The Claim of the Waterloo Mining Co., Golden Point Head, Ballarat, 1854 (Mitchell Library). The picture was possibly painted retrospectively; Weston Bate states that this mine was not operating until 1857.

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1992
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2011

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