Gold washing at Summerhill Creek.

Primary Artist

George French Angas (1822–1886)

Title

Gold washing at Summerhill Creek.

Other titles

Gold washing, Summer Hill.

Source

Angas, George French. Six Views of the gold Fields of Ophir, at Summerhill and Lewis' Pond Creeks. Sydney: Woolcott & Clarke, 1851

Page or Plate number

no.1.

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 5996

Date made

1851

Place made

Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in colour, from two stones

Matrix size

24.6 x 34.4 cm (printed image)

Support

paper

Support size

31.4 x 39.8 cm (sheet)

State

Published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

no inscriptions

Subject description

Prospectors panning for gold at Summerhill Creek, Ophir, New South Wales, near the site of the first gold discoveries in Australia in 1851.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

145163

Accession number

2005.516.1

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 1, 2005/2006 (2005-08-31)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia from, The library of Sir Rupert Clarke, Bt. together with other properties, Melbourne: Peter Arnold [auction], 21-22 June 2005, lot 5.

Credit line

Purchased 2005

Subject categories

Australia, Art period: Colonial, New South Wales | Australia, Gold rush to industry, 1851-1901

Creators

Woolcott & Clarke. | (1851–1854) Australian | Organisation | publisher

Angas, George French. | (1822–1886) Aotearoa New Zealander | Australian | English | Male | artist

Last Updated

07 Jan 2013