Booked into see a one-off presentation/discussion of AGSA's Japanese woodblock print collection - with works brought out of storage for this special viewing, including woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. #AgsaAdelaide #member

#S_T_Gill only occasionally portrayed drunks, and this may be the earliest extant such picture: the Annual Agricultural Show in 1846. Five hotel booth signs are in the scene including the Wheatsheaf #Adelaide!

#AGSAAdelaide recently made their digitised image available in the public catalogue, so now I also can display it. #artHistoryAU @arthistory

View: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_1845_1846.htm#243

Today researching at Art Gallery of South Australia. Oddly #S_T_Gill’s 1830s pen and ink sketchbook from his youth has a single c.1850s/1860s pencil sketch on a spare middle page.
Presumably he was just short of paper.
#AGSAAdelaide

https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/sketchbook/33411/

Added an 1845 watercolour of North Terrace #Adelaide to the list of #S_T_Gill”s pictures for George French Angas. (It’s signed: G F Angas!) This further adds to my demonstration that Gill was a ghost artist for Angas.

It’s NOT available online at #AGSAAdelaide and I don’t have permission to share the scan so that makes it a bit ho-hum for the reader. However I do link to an old newspaper reproduction!

https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_and_George_French_Angas_1844_1845.htm#776