This is a bit of an art puzzle.

The Chair and The Vice are a pair of satirical prints showing a meeting chairman and his vice-chairman. Food and carafes of wine are involved. The "vice" looks the worse for wear. #S_T_Gill #lithography #19thCentury #artHistory

My new article: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_The_Chair_and_The_Vice.htm

I've added to my map of Horrocks 1846 expedition (Flinders Ranges, Clare Valley) with a secondary map layer of #S_T_Gill's retrospectives. The primary layer mostly contains 33 watercolours finished just after the expedition. I used the secondary layer for research but now make it public. Follow any of the map links in this article to take you to the map. #SouthAustralia #uMap #historicalMapping

https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_and_Horrocks_Retrospectives.htm

Today is Samuel Thomas Gill's birthday - he'd be 208. I've described him as "arguably Australia's most recognisable colonial artist", not as much by name, as by the extent of works used for historical illustration.

Once more commonly called "the artist of the goldfields", here's a sample of 24 sketches (tinged with gentle humour) from 1852 - that earnt him that nickname - in my recent article: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_1852_Diggings_and_Diggers_Part_1.htm

#S_T_Gill #lithography #historyAU

Happy about this. I had an overnight enquiry from an academic in Dublin with an interest in the "literary cultures of nineteenth-century copper mining". She was particularly interested in the interaction between Indigenous and settler children shown in an #S_T_Gill picture that was reproduced in 1848 in the Illustrated London News.

It pleases me that my project can be useful to other researchers. Plus the enquiry helps me refocus on that content and in a couple of weeks I'll improve on my old page on the #Burra mine. #historyAU

https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_and_Burra_Burra_Mine_1847.htm#GrahamEngland

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116572766423875447

I've been long puzzled by #S_T_Gill's sketches of theatrical costumes and scenes from Shakespeare. Were these designs for a theatre company?
But having just seen PDR's post (quoted below) I see it's possible Gill was (again) (at least in part) inspired by Cruikshank on a theme. Link to Gill's "Hamlet and the Ghost" in #StateLibraryNSW. https://search.sl.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/1cvjue2/ADLIB110349983
#19thCentury #artHistory

#StateLibraryNSW has an extended outage affecting the new catalogue, which is used by my #S_T_Gill project. However you can still use the old catalogue where you can search by work title or call number.

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/news/accessing-library-services-during-online-service-disruption

Edit: services restored.

My website and email are temporarily down. Hopefully back in a few hours. My site is snapshot by #TroveAU but the latest seems to be more than a year old. Something for me to think about. (Main impact on #S_T_Gill project.)