Samuel Gill b. 21 May 1818

Also known as S. T. Gill, T. G. S., Samuel Thomas Gill
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Colonial era watercolourist, lithographer and presumably photographer who documented exploration and the Gold Rush in Australia.
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Citations

  • (13 May 1865), 'Bell’s Life in Sydney’.

  • Gill, S. T. (1865), 'The Australian Sketchbook’.

  • Sherer, John, 'The Gold-Finder of Australia: How He Went, How He Fared and How He Made His Fortune’, England, contains forty-eight engravings attributed to W.A. Nicholls but obviously taken from Gill.

  • (1840), 'South Australian Register’, Adelaide, South Australia, 03-07, 1845-11-08; 1847-02-13.

  • (1852), 'Argus’, Melbourne, Victoira, 08-20, 1912-09-14; 1912-09-21.

  • (1853), 'Armchair’, 09-24, 1854-02-11.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1930).

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • Morgan, E.J.R. (1966), 'Samuel Thomas Gill’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol 1, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Appleyard, R.; et al. (1986), 'S.T. Gill: the South Australian Years 1839-1852’, Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia.

  • Bowden, K. (1971), 'Samuel Thomas Gill: Artist’, Maryborough, Victoria.

  • Carroll, Alison, 'lithograph, ill. Heads of the People No.2 1849’, Art Gallery of South Australia, SA.

  • Dutton, G. (1962), 'The Paintings of S.T. Gill’, Adelaide, South Australia.

  • Greig, A.W. (1913), 'Samuel Thomas Gill’, Melbourne, Victoria: Victorian Historical Magazine 3 (p 14).

  • Jones, S. (1983), 'Monsieur Noufflard’s House’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1977), 'Artists of the Australian Goldrush’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1930).

  • Sayers, A. (1989), 'Drawing in Australia’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Smith, B. (1945), 'Place, Taste and Tradition’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Tregenza, J. (1977), ''S.T. Gill’s “Heads of the People”’, Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia Bull. 35, pp 26-35.

  • (1848), 'Illustrated London News’, London, England, UK, 12-02.

  • (1855), 'advertisement for Campbells & Fergusson lithographers and engravers’, Melbourne Directory, Victoria.

  • (13 December 1869), 'South Australian Advertiser’, Adelaide, South Australia.

  • (1876), Sydney Mail, 05-06.

  • Information sourced from Appleyard, Ron.

  • Gill, S. T. (1846), 'South Australian Gazette’, Adelaide, South Australia, 10-10.

  • Gill, S. T. (1852), 'Victorian Gold Diggings and Diggers As They Are’, Melbourne, Victoria, 08.

  • Gill, S. T. (1855), 'The Diggers and Diggings of Victoria As They Are’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Gill, S. T., 'Sketches in Victoria’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Gill, S. T. (1857), 'Victoria Illustrated’, Melbourne, Victoria (engraved in London after drawings by Gill).

  • Gill, S. T. (1856), 'Scenery in and around Sydney’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Gill, S. T. (1869), 'The Victorian Goldfields’, Melbourne, Victoria: Melbourne Public Library.

  • Gill, S. T., 'The Gold-Fields of Victoria during 1852-3: Comprising Fifty Sketches of Life and Character Primative [sic] Operations &c. &c.’, (posthumously).

  • Dutton, G. (1978), 'S.T. Gill’s Australia’, Adelaide, South Australia.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encycopedia of Australian Artists, 2nd edn’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, C.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, A.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

  • Information sourced from Chapman, W.

  • Tregenza, J. (1981), 'The visual dimension of colonial history’, Sydney, New South Wales: Art and Australia 19/1.

  • Caban, 'A Fine Line’, p.7.

See also

  • 'sardonic self-portrait by Gill reproduced in Geoffrey Caban A Fine Line p.5 (colour)'.
  • 'Zealous gold diggers, Bendigo, July 1st, 1852, coloured lithograph, NLA (NK586/10), NLA News Oct 1999, p. 10'.
  • 'Native Dignity, b/w on sepia lithographic version, ML Pf19; (Policeman meeting robber on street corner) known as The Trap, 1850s watercolour, NLA Pictorial Collection, included in 1992 NLA exhibition, On The Street Where You Live, NLA News, Dec 1992, p. 9.'.
  • 'Coffee Tent & Sly Grog Shop, Diggers Breakfast, 1852, lithograph and The Claim Disputed, 1852, lithograph, NLA News, October 2000, p. 7'.

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