The Gap Store, near Kororoit Creek, Victoria, 1852 / Thomas Ham
- Bib ID:
- 7123945
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Ham, Thomas, 1821-1870, artist
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Drawer 2828 #PIC/19997 copy
- Description:
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- 1852
- 1 painting : watercolour on paper ; 21.2 x 28.8 cm
- Summary:
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The Gap Store was in the hamlet of Aitken's Gap (later Buttlejorrk), three kilometres west of Sunbury in the parish of Buttlejorrk. The post office and store was located on one of the key stages on the journey to the gold-fields.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer.
- Attribution uncertain.
- Inscriptions: "The Gap, near Koroit Creek, Victoria (1852) Trip to Gold Fields. 7 miles S.E. of Gisborne ?4 miles N.W. of Melb. pop 500 in 1854"--In pencil on reverse of frame.
- Condition: Yellowing, fading.
- PIC Drawer 2828 #PIC/19997 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-288989146
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased at the sale of the Denis Joachim collection, Mossgreen Auction, Melbourne, 19-21 June 2016, Lot 702.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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Out of Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1870
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1852
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