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Burra Burra Copper Mine [B 69728] • Artwork

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Summary

Four scenes from the Burra Burra Copper Mine engraved for a newspaper page for the "Illustrated London News", 2 December 1848, page 339. The views have been later hand-coloured. The scenes are (1) Kooringa - The Burra Burra township; (2) Opening of Lode in Stock's air-hole, in the mine; (3) Interior of the mine; and (4) Burra Burra Mines - the surface operations. Newspaper text is inserted between the scenes, including "We are indebted for the drawings of our illustrations to Mr. J.B. Graham, who has recently returned from Australia, where, after a few years' labour, he has realised a handsome fortune from his shares in the Burra Burra Mine."

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Physical description

Engraving (lithograph); 37.5 cm x 26.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

1848

Artist

Gill, Samuel Thomas

Collection

Part of Burra Collection

Subject

Copper mines and mining -- South Australia -- Burra
Burra (S.A.)

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General notes

To see individual images from this work , do a NUMBER search on B 69728/1-4.

Historical information

These engravings were based on four of the seven watercolours by S.T. Gill which were reported in the 'S.A. Register' 8 August 1847: "Mr Gill the artist has made seven interesting drawings of the Burra Burra Mines, two being surface views of the chief mining locality, one a view of the Association town of Kooringa and four sketches of the subterranean excavations and the mining operations therein. The drawings form very appropriate adornments for the walls of the Directors' Room." The Gill paintings are 'The Burra Burra Township', 'Neale's stopes, Burra Burra Mine, 1847', 'The Burra Burra Mine, showing main portion of the surface operations, 1847' and 'The opening of the lode in Stock's air-hole from the top of the N.W. entrance, 12 April 1847'. Gill received two guineas per painting. The originals of the first 3 scenes from the 'Illustrated London News' version are held in the collection of the Art Gallery of SA; the last is in the Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Digitisation information

Date

03/03/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,371 x 4,622 pixels (15.6 MP)

Size

46.78 MB

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