Lot #89 - Attributed To George Alexander Gilbert
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Auction House:Deutscher and Hackett
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Sale Name:Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art
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Sale Date:18 Apr 2018
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Lot #:89
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Lot Description: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
RELATED WORK/S: 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 -
Provenance:Private collection, Victoria
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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)
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References: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)
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Estimate:A$10,000 - 15,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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