12 hours road scraping in Melbourne: scraped from the streets and sketched on stone [presentation box]

Primary Artist

Henry Heath Glover (1828–1904)

Title

12 hours road scraping in Melbourne: scraped from the streets and sketched on stone [presentation box]

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

box

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), not listed

Date made

1857

Place made

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

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Category

Portfolio

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithographs

Text printed from matrix

printed text on spine in gold, '12 / HOURS / ROAD / SCRAPING'.
printed text on spine in gold, 'GLOVER'.
printed text on spine in gold, '1857'.

Edition information

print run unknown

Subject categories

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

Legacy id

207930

Creators

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

Last Updated

24 Nov 2025

Impressions

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

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