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All peaces bellow were officially published in 1865 but were made in varying times.

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At a glance

Artist ST Gill

Sketches of Australian life in the 1860s

Goldfields and rural scenes

Chromolithography process

About the book

The Australian Sketchbook is a collection of 24 chromolithographs by artist Samuel Thomas Gill. It was published around 1865 by Melbourne printing and publishing firm Hamel and Ferguson.

The scenes depict mostly rural subjects, including wool wagons, a shepherd, bushranging, lost children, diggers heading for the goldfields, a bush funeral, surveyors, a bush mailman, kangaroo and emu hunting, a corroboree and the native police. The book was extremely popular, running to several editions.

The Australian Sketchbook was Gill's first foray into the new process of chromolithography, and only the second book published in Australia using the technique, which allowed for the printing of multi-coloured images through the use of oil-based inks applied to a sequence of printing stones.
Click on the images below to view the pages of The Australian Sketchbook by ST Gill
Samuel Thomas Gill

Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-1880) was a prolific artist and illustrator working in colonial Australia from the mid-19th century. Gill arrived in South Australia from England in December 1839, and within four months had established a studio in Adelaide offering 'to produce portraits of human beings, horses and dogs, and to sketch houses'. His artwork in South Australia includes drawings made on an exploring party to the Spencer Gulf and portraits of prominent South Australians.

In 1852, he went to the Victorian goldfields where he completed perhaps his best-known representations of every-day life on the diggings. He spent many years travelling in Victoria and New South Wales, sketching what he saw and producing lithographs intended to appeal to colonists and those in Britain with an interest in Australia. He returned to Melbourne in 1864 and soon published The Australian Sketchbook. Alongside Gill's depictions of the digger life, horses and bushmen were a commonly represented in his work.

Historian WH Newnham observed that Gill's 'fame and fortune was to last just about as long as the gold-rush period'. He died penniless on 27 October 1880.

National Museum collection

The Australian Sketchbook was acquired by the National Museum in 2013. The Museum's collection also includes a rare wooden printing block of ST Gill's illustration Bourke Street West in the Forenoon.
More on the printing block in the 1875 Melbourne Panorama collection highlight
This collection highlight was prepared by curators Nicole McLennan and Martha Sear, People and the Environment, National Museum of Australia.

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Artist ST Gill Sketches of Australian life in the 1860s Goldfields and rural scenes Chromolithography process The Australian Sketchbook is a collection of 24 chromolithographs by artist Samuel Thomas Gill. It was published around 1865 by Melbourne printing and publishing firm Hamel and Ferguson.

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St Gill was greatly influenced by the 1860s Australian agriculture and settlement. All pieces are of people doing daily tasks, but the thing that stands out about them is the natural land and the efforts made for the daily tasks.

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I have chosen this background music as its by an Australian artist and is very relaxing. It also doesn't take away from the art with lyrics.

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Gerry Joe Weise, Blue Outback, Australian blues guitarist

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S.T Gill also known as Samuel  Thomas Gill lived from 1818-1880 and created many lithographs through the years. S.T Gills career really started when he moved to South Australia from England in 1837 where he travelled around sketching Australian scenes and sent them to people in Britain who were interested in Australia. In 1852 ST Gill travelled to Victoria where he made his best pieces of art in the gold fields. ST Gill spent years travelling between  Victoria and NSW sketching many scenes from bush rangers to gold fields and even hunting. Most of ST Gills best artworks are now in the Australian sketchbook which houses 24 lithographs and was published in 1865. Since then ST Gills artwork stile has shot up and many people paint in it but some of ST GIlls oldest pieces still stand out amongst the new.

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Shearing Shed In Vic
I have chosen the idea of a shearing shed as it is country Australia and will compliment the artwork perfectly as people will feel a part of the pieces. I have also chosen to have it in Victoria as this is where the main part of the gold rush was and ST Gill did some of his best works on the gold rush.

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Night Camp, is a very good piece with the first thing popping out being the fire, this is because it is the only warm thing and the fact that its in the middle which is a great start to a painting as it draws your eye in and is a great focal point. Night Camp reflects the same thing as most of ST Gills paintings this being that it shows the Early Australian life style. You can also see he has paid a lot of attention to detail from the moon, the clouds and the silhouettes to the line of the grass and shrubs he has resembled every thing perfectly.