• Title
  Sketchbook of cartoons and studies, ca. 1870-1872 / by S.T. Gill
• Creator
  Samuel Thomas Gill, 1818-1880
• Call number
  PXA 70
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1870-1872
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  431136
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (28 ink drawings) - 21.6 x 30.6 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1a. Going in for Protection
  1b. Selection before Survey
  2a. Speculative Reefer & Lady en route to Alfred Hall Ballarat 1872
  2b. "A Sporting Friend" who kindly proposes to hold the Stakes.
  2c. Operative Digger & Spouse on way to Subscription Ball Ballarat 1854
  3a. Diggers Ball Ballarat 1852
  3b. "A late rising Gentleman at road side Inn makes a futile attempt to overtake the early Coach"
  4a. [Gentlemen greeting]
  4b. [Male and female in profile]
  4c. Wall Fruit
  4d. "Keep em in" [school]
  4e. "A pure merino & a maiden ewe"
  4f. "Take em out" [of school]
  5a. "The man who won the fight"
  5b. "The man who lost the fight"
  6. "A muscular party who desires to act on the square"
  7a. [Male and female in profile promenading]
  7b. "Coming events cast thier [i.e. their] shadow &c."
  8. Melbourne Collins St East Doing the Block 1872
  9a. In easy circumstances
  9b. Despotic Government Matrimonial a sorry case
  9c. Conubial [i.e. connubial] Enjoyment a great succefs [i.e. success]
  10a. [General dealer in Epson salts]
  10b. Smith, Brown & Robinson (lately arrived) have serious doubts regarding the fact. Melbourne 1852
  11a. Happy in his mind
  11b. A call to the Minestry [i.e. Ministry]
  12a. A regular swell
  12b. "Civil service and counter attractions" [saloon bar]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales<br>
• General note
  
  Although two sketches bear the date 1852 and one is dated 1854, their style suggests that they are contemporary with the sketches dated 1872. -- Manager of Original Materials, Mitchell Library, Oct. 2003
  Page nos. 2, 5, and 11 have additional drawings at the top of the page in the form of stick figures.
  Only pages with illustrations are numbered.
  Bound by Corbett Binder, City Chambers, 243 Pitt Street, Sydney.
  D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
  ""D.S. Mitchell"" signature inside on title page.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1045920
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most drawings are initialled, ""S.T.G.""
  Most drawings are titled in ink below image.
  On title page, ""The Victoria Sketch Book / Published by Edwd. Purton & Co., Manufacturing Stationers, 106 Elizabeth St., Melbourne""
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  balls & dances
  cartoons
  hotel bars
  people
  satire
  sketchbooks
  social problems
  
• Place
  Ballarat (Vic.)
  Melbourne (Vic.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Artists and cartoonists in black and white

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