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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