nikoOct 14
Booked into see a one-off presentation/discussion of AGSA's Japanese woodblock print collection - with works brought out of storage for this special viewing, including woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. #AgsaAdelaide #member
David CoombeAug 13, 2025

#S_T_Gill only occasionally portrayed drunks, and this may be the earliest extant such picture: the Annual Agricultural Show in 1846. Five hotel booth signs are in the scene including the Wheatsheaf #Adelaide!

#AGSAAdelaide recently made their digitised image available in the public catalogue, so now I also can display it. #artHistoryAU @arthistory

View: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_1845_1846.htm#243

S.T. Gill, November 1845 to June 1846

After the commission for James Allen and South Australian Company, in November 1845 Gill briefly trialled Daguerreotype (photography). Little is known about what he did next, up until the time he left on Horrocks' expedition in July 1846.

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David CoombeJun 17, 2025

Today researching at Art Gallery of South Australia. Oddly #S_T_Gill’s 1830s pen and ink sketchbook from his youth has a single c.1850s/1860s pencil sketch on a spare middle page.
Presumably he was just short of paper.
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https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/sketchbook/33411/

S. T. Gill,Reverend Samuel Gill, Sketchbook, 1835-38

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David CoombeApr 15, 2025

Added an 1845 watercolour of North Terrace #Adelaide to the list of #S_T_Gill”s pictures for George French Angas. (It’s signed: G F Angas!) This further adds to my demonstration that Gill was a ghost artist for Angas.

It’s NOT available online at #AGSAAdelaide and I don’t have permission to share the scan so that makes it a bit ho-hum for the reader. However I do link to an old newspaper reproduction!

https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_and_George_French_Angas_1844_1845.htm#776

S.T. Gill and George French Angas, 1844-1845

1844-45. George French Angas made a splash in South Australia in two visits (interrupted by a trip to New Zealand). He left on 2 July 1845, a fortnight after his art exhibition and its associated controversy.

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