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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creator of
The Diggers and Diggings of Victoria As They Are 1855
 
creator of
Victorian Gold Diggings and Diggers As They Are
 
creator of
Forest Creek, Mount Alexander
 
creator of
The Australian Sketchbook
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Medium
Works on paper
Tags
Illustrated Book, Chromolithography, Frontier and Pioneer Life, Aboriginal Australians, Corroboree, Victoria, Australian Colonial Art
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b1653783

[Melbourne]: Printed in colors and published by Hamel & Ferguson, 25 prints: chromolithograph; 28.5 × 43 cm.

 
creator of
Rambles at the antipodes
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Medium
Works on paper
Tags
Illustrated Book, Colour plates, Lithography, Illustrator, Description and Travel, Australian Colonial Art
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b2573334

London: W.H. Smith and Son, v, 219 p., [14] leaves of plates (2 folded): col. ill., 2 col. maps; 18 cm.

 
Victoria illustrated
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Medium
Works on paper
Tags
Illustrated Books, Victoria, Melbourne, Geelong, Australian Colonial Art
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b2760192

Melbourne: Sands, Kenny, [46] leaves of plates: all. ill.; 24 × 31 cm.

 
creator of
Asylum for Destitute Children, Randwick
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URL
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an7537515
 
creator of
Lithographic Sketches in and around Sydney: Part the Second
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Courtesy of: Baillieu Library Special Collections, University of Melbourne
creator of
Sketches in Victoria
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Medium
Works on paper
Tags
Lithography, Australian Social Life and Customs
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b1281910

Drawn on stone, Melbourne: J.J. Blundell, Melbourne: Campbell & Fergusson, Lithographers, ill.; 15 X 24 cm.

 
creator of
Land Auction, Main Road, Ballarat./ Interval of 10 minutes for Harmony & refreshment.
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creator of
14 views of old Adelaide
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Medium
Works on paper
Tags
Illustrated Book, Australian Colonial Art, Adelaide
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b1403614

Adelaide: E.S. Wigg, [5] leaves, [14] leaves of plates: ill.; 23 × 29 cm.

 
creator of
Heads of the People
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creator of
Adelaide Racecourse
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creator of
Trinity Church, Adelaide
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References [<ExternalResource: (13 May 1865), 'Bell's Life in Sydney'.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1865), 'The Australian Sketchbook'.>, <ExternalResource: 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.>, <ExternalResource: (1840), 'South Australian Register', Adelaide, South Australia, 03-07, 1845-11-08; 1847-02-13.>, <ExternalResource: (1852), 'Argus', Melbourne, Victoira, 08-20, 1912-09-14; 1912-09-21.>, <ExternalResource: (1853), 'Armchair', 09-24, 1854-02-11.>, <ExternalResource: Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art', 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1930).>, <ExternalResource: Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape'.>, <ExternalResource: 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.>, <ExternalResource: Appleyard, R.; et al. (1986), 'S.T. Gill: the South Australian Years 1839-1852', Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Bowden, K. (1971), 'Samuel Thomas Gill: Artist', Maryborough, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Carroll, Alison, 'lithograph, ill. Heads of the People No.2 1849', Art Gallery of South Australia, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Dutton, G. (1962), 'The Paintings of S.T. Gill', Adelaide, South Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Greig, A.W. (1913), 'Samuel Thomas Gill', Melbourne, Victoria: Victorian Historical Magazine 3 (p 14).>, <ExternalResource: Jones, S. (1983), 'Monsieur Noufflard's House', Sydney, New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (1977), 'Artists of the Australian Goldrush', Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art', 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1930).>, <ExternalResource: Sayers, A. (1989), 'Drawing in Australia', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: Smith, B. (1945), 'Place, Taste and Tradition', Sydney, New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: Tregenza, J. (1977), ''S.T. Gill's "Heads of the People"', Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia Bull. 35, pp 26-35.>, <ExternalResource: (1848), 'Illustrated London News', London, England, UK, 12-02.>, <ExternalResource: (1855), 'advertisement for Campbells & Fergusson lithographers and engravers', Melbourne Directory, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: (13 December 1869), 'South Australian Advertiser', Adelaide, South Australia.>, <ExternalResource: (1876), Sydney Mail, 05-06.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Appleyard, Ron.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1846), 'South Australian Gazette', Adelaide, South Australia, 10-10.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1852), 'Victorian Gold Diggings and Diggers As They Are', Melbourne, Victoria, 08.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1855), 'The Diggers and Diggings of Victoria As They Are', Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T., 'Sketches in Victoria', Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1857), 'Victoria Illustrated', Melbourne, Victoria (engraved in London after drawings by Gill).>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1856), 'Scenery in and around Sydney', Sydney, New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1869), 'The Victorian Goldfields', Melbourne, Victoria: Melbourne Public Library.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T., 'The Gold-Fields of Victoria during 1852-3: Comprising Fifty Sketches of Life and Character Primative [sic] Operations &c. &c.', (posthumously).>, <ExternalResource: Dutton, G. (1978), 'S.T. Gill's Australia', Adelaide, South Australia.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encycopedia of Australian Artists, 2nd edn', Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Bruce, C.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Callaway, A.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Lennon, J.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Chapman, W.>, <ExternalResource: Tregenza, J. (1981), 'The visual dimension of colonial history', Sydney, New South Wales: Art and Australia 19/1.>, <ExternalResource: Caban, 'A Fine Line', p.7.>] [<ExternalResource: (13 May 1865), 'Bell's Life in Sydney'.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1865), 'The Australian Sketchbook'.>, <ExternalResource: 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.>, <ExternalResource: (1840), 'South Australian Register', Adelaide, South Australia, 03-07, 1845-11-08; 1847-02-13.>, <ExternalResource: (1852), 'Argus', Melbourne, Victoira, 08-20, 1912-09-14; 1912-09-21.>, <ExternalResource: (1853), 'Armchair', 09-24, 1854-02-11.>, <ExternalResource: Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art', 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1930).>, <ExternalResource: Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape'.>]