Geelong from Road to Fyans Ford near Windsor Castle. ST Gill engraving c1857

$70.00

S.T. Gill antique print of Geelong in the distance and people with a horse and chickens in the foreground.

Original steel engraving by James Tingle after the sketch by Samuel Thomas (S.T.) Gill (1818-1880) for Victoria Illustrated published Melbourne circa 1857. At 21, Gill migrated from London to South Australia. He tried his luck on the goldfields but had more success with his character studies of life on the goldfields. He then moved to Victoria to pursue his painting and drawing of colonial life in Australia.

This fine engraving is faintly soiled at base, and has a faint ink 26 at top right. The price has been reduced accordingly. Page size is the full published size of 21 x 28cm (8 x11 inches).