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1843 was a turning point for #SouthAustralia shifting from a rural economy to the start of a mining economy. This spurred the visit by artist George French Angas.

This the third of my new articles this week in the #S_T_Gill #colonialArt project. #1840s

https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Narrative_1843_to_1844.htm

This is one of the earliest street scenes in #Adelaide - from 1840. It's in Hindley St where the Grand Chancellor is now. (From #StateLibraryNSW collection.)

These are among the early #SouthAustralia works by #S_T_Gill. This new article accompanies the early narrative I've just added to the project. #1840s #colonialArtAU #catalogueRaisonne

https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Works_1839_to_1844.htm

S. T. Gill is arguably Australia's most recognisable colonial artist. He was in #SouthAustralia from 1839 to 1851. With two new narrative articles and a new catalogue article, I've now mostly finished my many years work on this period. The narratives are a particularly fresh look at the artist within an economic context. A different and online approach to #catalogueRaisonne. #artHistory #S_T_Gill #1840s

My new article (narrative starting point): https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Early_Narrative_1839_to_1842.htm

New Books (part IV)

'Quest for the New Moral World' by John F. C. Harrison. A history of the #Owenist movement in #Britain and the #USA Robert Owen was a #bourgeois philanthropist, factory-reformer and #Utopian #Socialist thinker who, by the mid-1820's, had somewhat ironically become the figurehead of a genuinely working-class based #political #trade_union and #CoOperative movement. The Owenists would be a major influence on #Marx and the #Chartists in the #1840s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owenism

FOR RENT (1840): one-roomed prefabricated Manning's house, 9 feet (2.74 m) square. At least it has a chimney. #Adelaide. #1840s #prefab #historyAU #prefabs

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TO BE SOLD, the Lease of a one-roomed (Manning's) Cottage, Brick Chimney, 9 feet square; on acre 446, Carrington-Street, South Adelaide. Ground rent 1l. per Annum. For further particulars apply to Mr NEALE, Auctioneer, &c., Franklin-street.

Rectory of Trinity Church, North Terrace, #Adelaide was also a prefabricated Manning's house. #1830s #1840s #prefab #S_T_Gill #historyAU #prefabs

Zoom in to left of church: https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/trinity-church-adelaide-1845/24380/

Realised these are probably prefabricated Manning's houses, c. 1841-42, corner Grenfell St & Gawler Pl, #Adelaide. #1840s #prefab #S_T_Gill #historyAU #prefabs

Repost this time with more direct link to artwork: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-134360971/view

Today I realised these are probably prefabricated Manning's houses, c. 1841-42, corner Grenfell St & Gawler Pl, #Adelaide.

#1840s #Adelaide #prefab #S_T_Gill #historyAU

https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_and_John_Napier_Magill.htm#76

Just stumbled across these free titles online at ANU by Alastair Greig, emeritus fellow. #Eurobodalla #NSWSouthCoast #BatemansBay #Murramarang #1840s

The Road to Batemans Bay »
Speculating on the South Coast During the 1840s Depression

They Came to Murramarang »
A History of Murramarang, Kioloa and Bawley Point

https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/authors-editors/alastair-greig

Invention for four colour (map) printing - blue, yellow, red, black - now our CYMK. #historicalMapping #1840s William Clowes, London

The "sheet of pure white drawing paper is ... perfectly unconscious of the impending fate that awaits it"!

Read news: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71614989

I’m quite familiar with #Adelaide in the #1840s. When it comes to a city visit, pity my partner who has to put up with 180 years of my streetscape anachronism.