Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Complete in 12 Plates - Plate Eleven: The New Chum's Arrival on a Gold Diggings


Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Complete in 12 Plates

Plate Eleven: The New Chum's Arrival on a Gold Diggings

Caption: Distance lends enchantment to the view is exquistively verified in the opinion a new arrival, or in Colonial parlance, a New Chum, entertains of a trip to the diggings.  Adopting the regular and experienced diggers' idea, but not his costume, they therefore, scorning any such notion as riding, commence a long and ardous journey on foot.  Many getting either disgusted with the difficulties of travelling or becoming heart sick, returned dispirited to Melbourne, perfectly satisfied with their knowledge of gold mining, restoring at the same time not to abandon the pen, for the spade, or as a young Gentlemen remarks in a Colonial song:-

I've got to work with all my might,
And throw up nasty day, 
If my mother could but see me now,
Whatever would she say.

Artist: Loosely based on drawings by S.T. Gill, including some plates from The Australian sketchbook. 

Provenance: Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Complete in 12 Plates
Contributor: Paul Jerrard & Son
Contributor: Messrs. Newbold & Co.
Date of Publication: ca. 1865
Published by: Paul Jerrard & Son for the proprietors Messrs. Newbold & Co.
Place of Publishing: London (170 Fleet Street)
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright

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