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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Fine Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  28 Nov 2012 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  37
• Lot Description:
  S.T. Gill
  1818 – 1880
  A Collection Of Sketches From Horrocks Expedition, 1846 And South Australia, c1846
  ten sepia watercolours
• Provenance:
  Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne; Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1992
• Notes:
  " (i) SPENCERS GULF FROM FLINDERS RANGE, SOUTH OF MT BROWN, SOUTH AUSTRALIA; 15.0 x 22.0 cm; inscribed lower right: Spencers Gulf from Flinders Range / So of Mt Brown / SoA inscribed verso: Mr Bishop / Spencers Gulf from Flinders Range South of / Mount Brown – looking acrofs [sic] to the Port Lincoln country / From original skitch [sic] – taken on Horrocks N.W. Expedition / August 12th 1846 / So Australia (ii) COUNTRY N.W. OF POINT ENCOUNTER, HORROCKS N.W. EXPEDITION; 14.5 x 21.5 cm; inscribed upper right: John Horrocks; inscribed verso: N1 / Country NW of Point Encounter – / Showing the scrub covered plain – and the high land / in the distance, for which Horrocks was making when / the accident put a stop to his procee[d]ing – From original / sketch taken in the after-noon of the same day that / the attack of the blacks took place in the Evening / under the hill the figures are represented to be on / in the sketch – A circumstance which induced Horrocks / to name the hill which ends at its highest end abruptly – Point Encounter – situated about (West from De[?p] / Creek and distant about 30 miles) from the neck of the creek / So of Lake Torrent near 10 miles – Horrocks’s NW Expedition / So Australia / August 28th/46 (iii) VALLEY SOUTH OF MT BROWN, FLINDERS RANGE; 16.0 x 23.0 cm; signed with initials lower left: S.T.G.; inscribed lower right: Valley So of Mt Brown / F. Range / S.A. / Flinders Range – Valley & Creek – one mile So of Mt Brown distant from Adelaide / 22.9 Miles / From original sketch taken on Horrocks’s N W Expedition / August 24th 1846 / No 3 / Sketches Nos 1. 2. & 3. are adapted to convey an idea of the wild mountain / scenery of So Australia – Flinders Range being one of the highest / and most extensive chains of Mountains in the province / and save at the extreme south affording but little herbage / to the graziers – northward the Kangaroo Emu & Rock Wallaby / are to be met with in great numbers – particularly on the / western side / S.T.G. (iv) SALT LAKE, N.W. OF MT ARDEN, HORROCKS N.W. EXPEDITION; 14.0 x 21.0 cm; inscribed upper centre – John Horrocks; signed with initials lower left: S T G; inscribed indistinctly lower centre to lower right: Salt Lake N.W. of Mt Arden, Horrock N W Exp; inscribed verso: N2 / Horrocks Halting at the Salt Lake – 75 Miles NW. of Mt Arden / and which may be said to be the furthest point he attained / the fatal accident occurring in two hours after the sketches / representing the Lake was taken Over the back of the camel / in the extreme distance may be seen the land for which / the party were making at the time – and shown in the / former sketch – / Horrocks’s N W Expedition / Sept 1st 1846 / N B the camel was imported into South Australia from / the islands of Madiera & was shot after the accident / to my Dear friend J[illeg.] Horrocks – his gun exploded when / he was in the act of drawing the charge which broke his / jaw & deprived him of his fingers from which he / died "" (v) LOOKING EAST FROM MOUNT LOFTY RANGE; 14.0 x 22.5 cm; signed with initials lower left: S.T.G.; inscribed indistinctly lower right: Looking E from Mt Lofty Range; inscribed verso: Looking East from Mount Lofty Range – about / 5 Miles from Adelaide – and 2 Miles north from / Mount Lofty – and the Great Eastern or Mt Barker / road – Some fine scenery occurs in this neighbourhood / and the Stringy bark forrest [sic] in the Locality – which / is much [?illeg, looks like ‘enanced’] thro the winter season – by the abunda[nt] / suply [sic] of water in all the creeks formed by the ravins [sic] / and strip valleys – on either side – / So Australia sketch (vi) EXTINCT CRATER NORTHWARD FROM A SKETCH BY CAPTAIN FROME; 15.5 x 22.0 cm; signed with initials lower left: S.T.G. inscribed lower right: EXTINCT Crater northward from a sketch / by Captn Frome signed and inscribed verso: Mr Bishop / Skitches [sic] in So Australia / Extinct Crater northward from original sketch taken / by Captn Frome – on his northward Expedition Lat & Long & mis-laid / SamlThosGill; RELATED WORK Extinct Crater, North of Spencer Gulf, South Australia, watercolour on paper, 17.8 x 28.5 cm, collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, illus. p. 13 in Appleyard, R., Fargher, B. and Radford, R., S.T. Gill: The South Australian Years 1839-1852, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1986, p. 57, cat. 27, illus. pp. 13, 57 (vii) A NATIVE WORLEY OR HABITATION; 14.0 x 22.0 cm; signed with initials lower left: S T G inscribed lower right: Native Worley / So A inscribed verso: A Native Worley or Habitation formed of bushes or Bark / from the ajacent [sic] trees – as is most conveniant [sic] / to the builders or best adapted to the season. (viii) THE PIPE-LIGHT; 21.5 x 15.5 cm; signed with initials lower left: S T G inscribed lower right: The pipe-light inscribed verso: The Pipe light / The Bushman dismounted to light his pipe / at the
• Estimate:
  A$80,000 - 120,000
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• Category:
  Art

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