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‘Prospecting’, by Samuel Thomas Gill, 1865

A colonial gold mining scene. Samuel Thomas Gill was an English-born artist who migrated to Australian in 1839. He sketched and painted many colonial scenes, and is especially well known for his depictions of the Victorian goldfields.

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National Museum of Australia

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