• Title
  Eureka Stockade riot, Ballarat, 1854 / by J. B. Henderson
• Creator
  J. B. (John Black) Henderson, 1827-1918
• Call number
  SSV2B/Ball/7
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1854
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  442534
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing - 17 x 23.1 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Artist John Black Henderson (1827-1918) migrated to Australia in 1851. He worked on the Ballarat goldfields for several months, then joined the Victorian Government Survey Office as a surveyor. By 1877 Henderson was in Sydney and worked in the Colonial Architect's Office until 1903.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This is probably a later worked-up version of rough sketches made on the diggings. Reference: Dictionary of Australian Artists / by Joan Kerr. Melb, Vic : Oxford University Press, 1992.
  Reproduced, by the Library, as a postcard (Ref. PC 10, copy filed at PXB 188).
  Digital order no:a928052
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "J. B. Henderson", very faded.
  Title on old mount in Library officer's hand, followed by note in the same hand, which has been copied in pencil on back: "The artist was on the spot a few hours after the riot. The uniforms of the soldiers and the dress of the miners are correctly portrayed".
• Name
  Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Vic.)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  demonstrations
  gold miners
  rifles
  soldiers
  stockades
  
• Place
  Ballarat (Vic.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eureka Revisited: the contest of memories - Art Gallery of Ballarat
  All in a Day's work: workers in Australia 1788-1939 - State Library of New South Wales

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