S. T. Gill 1818-1880
S. T. Gill 1818-1880Estimate $70,000 – $90,000
- Lot Sold SOLD (Hammer Price)
COBB & CO. BOOKING OFFICE, WITH BEECHWORTH COACH AND THE ALBION HOTEL 1865
watercolour and gouache on paper
signed and dated 'S.T.G. / 65' lower left
40 X 37CM
PROVENANCE
Mr George Page-Cooper, Melbourne
The Historical George Page-Cooper Collection, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 22 November 1967, lot 314
Private Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Early Australian Exhibition, The Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, March 1953
Collector's Collections, Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne, 9-17 August 1969, no. 141, 'Cobb & Co. Departure in Bourke Street'
Great Australian Paintings from Melbourne Private Collections, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 31 May - 15 June 1997, no. 3, 'Departure of the Beechworth Coach from outside the Cobb & Co Booking Office, Bourke Street, Melbourne', illustrated
LITERATURE
The Age, Melbourne, 31 March 1953, (illustrated)
Keith Bowdon, Samuel Thomas Gill Artist, K.M. Bowden, Maryborough 1971, pp. 95, 102 (illustrated)
Geoffrey Dutton, S.T. Gill's Australia, Mead & Beckett, Sydney, 1981, p. 47