1 o'clock am

view larger image

Title

1 o'clock am

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

p.12

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), not listed

Date made

1857

Place made

Australia, Victoria, Melbourne View on map Close map

Finding location.

Loading map tiles.

Unfortunately the location could not be loaded.

Category

Portfolio

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone

Support

thin buff wove paper

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

print run unknown

Subject description

Two drunk men walking along a rat infested street. A night watchman is asleep in a doorway.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

207928

Accession number

2007.366.12

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