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
Courtesy: State Library Victoria
Plate One: Sunday at the Diggings
Plate Two: The Lost Bushman or the Unfortunate Digger that Never Returned
Plate Three: A New Rush
Plate Four: A Concert on a New Rush or Gold Diggings in Australia
Plate Five: Bushrangers Waiting for the Mails in New South Wales
Plate Six: A Corrobory (sic), or Native Dance
Plate Seven: A Native Sepulchre or Aboriginal Mode of Burial
Plate Eight: Christmas on the Diggings or the Unwelcome Visitor Who Came Uninvited
Plate Nine: Our Convicts What We Do & What Becomes of Them
Plate Ten: The Way Her Majesty's Mails & The Public Protectors are Served in New South Wales
Plate Eleven: The New Chum's Arrival on a Gold Diggings
Plate Twelve: Prospecting for Gold or Rewarded at Last
Plate One: Sunday at the Diggings
Plate Two: The Lost Bushman or the Unfortunate Digger that Never Returned
Plate Three: A New Rush
Plate Four: A Concert on a New Rush or Gold Diggings in Australia
Plate Five: Bushrangers Waiting for the Mails in New South Wales
Plate Six: A Corrobory (sic), or Native Dance
Plate Seven: A Native Sepulchre or Aboriginal Mode of Burial
Plate Eight: Christmas on the Diggings or the Unwelcome Visitor Who Came Uninvited
Plate Nine: Our Convicts What We Do & What Becomes of Them
Plate Ten: The Way Her Majesty's Mails & The Public Protectors are Served in New South Wales
Plate Eleven: The New Chum's Arrival on a Gold Diggings
Plate Twelve: Prospecting for Gold or Rewarded at Last
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