Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Complete in 12 Plates
Plate Five: Bushrangers Waiting for the Mails in New South Wales
Caption: Waiting for the Mail in England and Australia is accompanied sometimes by different meanings, especially in New South Wales. Her Majesty's mails have been waited for and on, with the most unremitting attention by sets of treeborders, or Bushrangers, who for years past have been regularly robbing both passengers and letters which timeless pursuit they continue to carry on with perfect impunity, the police being totally unable to arrest, or even prevent them practising their depredations.
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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