Primary Artist

Henry Heath Glover (1828–1904)

Title

12 hours road scraping in Melbourne: scraped from the streets and sketched on stone

Physical description

a bound book with illustrated titling-wrappersr and 12 pages of lithographs

Source

Henry Glover, 12 hours road scraping in Melbourne: scraped from the streets and sketched on stone, Melbourne: Edgar Ray & Co, 1857.

Page or Plate number

collection record

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), not listed

Date made

1857

Place made

Australia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne View on map Close map

Category

Portfolio

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithographs, printed in black ink, each from one stone

Matrix size

13.8 x 22.0 cm (book (closed))

Support

thin buff wove paper

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed inside cover upper left in black pencil, '[1857]'.

Subject description

Roadworkers

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

167388

Accession number

2007.366.1-12

Accession method

Auction

Meeting

Meeting 1, 2007/2008 (2007-08-28)

Provenance

Rodney Davidson, Melbourne. (bookplate in presentation box) Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia from, The Davidson collection, Melbourne: Australian Book Auctions, 25 July 2007, lot 531.

Credit line

Purchased 2007

Subject categories

Workers | Australia, Book arts: Illustrated book | Australia, Art period: Colonial, Victoria

Creators

Edgar Ray & Co. | (1857–1859) Australian | Organisation | publisher

Glover, Henry Heath. | (1828–1904) Aotearoa New Zealander | Australian | English | Male | artist

Last Updated

04 Jan 2013