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Creator
Henderson, J. B. (John Black), 1827 - 1918
Title
Eureka Stockade riot, Ballarat, 1854 / by J. B. Henderson
Level of Description
Collection
Date of Work
1854
Type of Material
Graphic Materials
Call Number
SSV2B/Ball/7
Physical Description
Drawings : 1 watercolour drawing ; 17 x 23.1 cm.
Administrative / Biographical Note
Artist John Black Henderson (1827-1918) migrated to Australia in 1851. He worked on the Ballarat goldfields for several months, then joined the Victorian Government Survey Office as a surveyor. By 1877 Henderson was in Sydney and worked in the Colonial Architect's Office until 1903.
Source
Presented by W.J.H. Harris, 1969
Signatures / Inscriptions
"J. B. Henderson", very faded. Title on old mount in Library officer's hand, followed by note in the same hand, which has been copied in pencil on back: "The artist was on the spot a few hours after the riot. The uniforms of the soldiers and the dress of the miners are correctly portrayed".
General Note
This is probably a later worked-up version of rough sketches made on the diggings. Reference: Dictionary of Australian Artists / by Joan Kerr. Melb, Vic : Oxford University Press, 1992. Reproduced, by the Library, as a postcard (Ref. PC 10, copy filed at PXB 188).
Name
Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Vic.)
Topic
demonstrations
gold miners
rifles
soldiers
stockades
Place
Ballarat (Vic.)
Persons
Adult Males
Exhibited in
Eureka Revisited: the contest of memories
All in a Day's work: workers in Australia 1788 - 1939
Digital order no.
a928052
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