SCENE AT THE DIGGINGS, MOUNT ALEXANDER, 1852

Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art
Sydney
18 April 2018
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Attributed to GEORGE ALEXANDER GILBERT

(1815 – 1889)
SCENE AT THE DIGGINGS, MOUNT ALEXANDER, 1852

watercolour, ink and pencil on paper

23.5 x 33.5 cm

signed and dated lower right: ‘S’ or ‘G’ Gilbert 1852

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000
Provenance

Private collection, Victoria

Exhibited

Impression of Colour: Colour in Australian Art, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 18 August – 29 September 2012, cat. 3 (illus. in exhibition catalogue as ‘George Alexander Gilbert, (Panning for Gold on the Australian Goldfields, Mt Alexander Victoria), 1852’) (label attached verso)

Literature

Morris, A., ‘Gold !; An extraordinary colonial image’, Australiana, The Australiana Society, Sydney, vol. 34, no. 1, February 2012, pp. 4 – 13 (illus. front cover and p. 4)
Morris, A., 'Native Police Corps', Australiana, The Australiana Society, Sydney, vol. 34, no. 2, May 2012, pp. 4 – 9 (illus., p. 4)

Related works

John Skinner Prout, Alluvial Gold Washing, Mt. Alexander goldfields, Victoria, c.1852, watercolour on card, 26.4 x 39.8 cm, National Library of Australia, Canberra
John Skinner Prout, Scene at the Diggings – Mount Alexander, engraving, illus. in A voyage to Australia, and a Visit to the Gold Fields: Illustrated with Six Engravings, from sketches made on the Spot., Edwin Prout, London, 1852
S. Bradshaw, ‘Alluvial Gold Washing’, in Booth, E.C., Australia: illustrated with Drawings by Skinner Prout, N. Chevalier etc., Virtue and Co. Ltd., London, 1873, opp. p. 54