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George French Angas (1822-1886)
Lot 33

George French Angas (1822-1886)

Gold digging, Summer Hill, N.S. Wales, 1851

Closed27 September 2007

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GBP 11,875

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George French Angas (1822-1886)
Gold digging, Summer Hill, N.S. Wales, 1851
inscribed as titled
pencil and watercolour with scratching out on paper
10 5/8 x 8¼in. (27 x 20.9cm.)

Specialist note

There is a related lithograph ('Gold washing at Summerhill Creek'), plate 1 in Angas's Six Views of the Gold Fields of Ophir, at Summerhill and Lewis' Ponds Creek; drawn from nature and on stone, by George French Angas, Sydney, 1851 (and copied as plate 2 in the London edition), for which see Abbey Travel, II, 582-3.