Title

Local Intelligence. Mr Gill, the artist has produced another batch of five South Australian Heads of the People ...

Author

Author not identified

Source

Register (Adelaide)

Details

18 July 1849, p.3, col.1.]

Publication date

18 July 1849

Type

Publication Review

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
Mr Gill, the artist, has produced another batch of five South Australian Heads of the People. They are cleverly got up, and, upon the whole, fair likenesses. A celebrated barrister skilled in weaving and unravelling the meshes of the law (although not a disciple of Izaak Walton) faces a Knight of the Hammer, who cannot rein in his witticisms, which drop as thick as hails. An architect and a stockholder, both striking likenesses, are also placed vis à vis; the fifth and central attraction being the bland and redoubtable mining millionaire, the great “O.G.”

[Register (Adelaide), 18 July 1849, p.3, col.1.]