Update: #StateLibrarySA images issue is now fixed. #S_T_Gill

Many #StateLibrarySA images have disappeared behind an onsite only wall, while others remain accessible.
Update: I submitted an enquiry to SLSA. They responded in just half an hour (!) and are working to resolve this as a priority. #S_T_Gill

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

Many #StateLibrarySA images have disappeared behind an onsite only wall, while others remain accessible. (Not a cultural restriction in this case.) I've submitted an enquiry. #S_T_Gill
https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/online_availability_check.htm

@KarenWyld Thanks Karen. Maybe not. #StateLibrarySA provided the microfilm for digitisation so it’s missing 1852. Intercolonial quoted snippets are findable. I can press on without 1852 Times. But it’s intriguing to wonder why it’s missing. Who originally owned the set? Was it from The Times itself?

I notice #StateLibrarySA has shifted locations for its digitised images (with both old and new URLs working). For example https://slsa-collections.s3.amazonaws.com/bf/76/6563-cf16-57b9-8acf-9271768484cf.jpg is now https://d1red3q7jhuy4m.cloudfront.net/bf/76/6563-cf16-57b9-8acf-9271768484cf.jpg.

This is the earliest known picture of the "new" Government House, Adelaide, in 1840/41. Previously attributed to Governor George Gawler, this painting is by S T Gill for Gawler. This is before Gill embedded his typical busyness of characters and foreground vegetation doodling. Also: famous English caricaturist George Cruikshank gets an important mention.
#Adelaide #1840s #StateLibrarySA #S_T_Gill #ColonialArtAU #19thCentury #ArtHistory

NEW ARTICLE: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Government_House_for_George_Gawler.htm

I've identified the earliest Australian paintings of S T Gill : 1840.

In 1846 Gill accompanied John Ainsworth Horrocks' small and fatal expedition. There are two portraits of Horrocks known only by early black and white photos now held by the State Library of South Australia.

For 7 years I thought Horrocks' gaze was heavenward and this was a post-mortem portrait after 1846. I was wrong. I attribute them to Gill and date them to early 1840.

#S_T_Gill #StateLibrarySA #1840s #SouthAustralia #Adelaide #ColonialArtAU #ArtHistoryAU #EyeContact

My new article: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_and_Horrocks_Portraits.htm