Can you help with translating this 1840s ?German? - "Schablu" or "Schables"?

The main figure in these pencil sketches is a wattle gum collector about 1845 South Australia - an image quite overlooked.

Wattle gum was an early export industry for South Australia and gummers collected the gum, often from public lands. In July 1845 the Legislative Council considered licensing the itinerant gummers and hawkers.

The caption below the sketch is "tranqant"? and "Schablu" or "Schables". These may be separate words or a phrase. "tranqant" = transient? I'm lost on "Schablu".

Image: manipulated caption.
Link to original: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138477113/view

#1840s #German #SouthAustralia #ArtHistoryAU

@wragge Thanks very much Tim. That’s new to me about using /image in place of /view and I can certainly use that to advantage. Also NLA pictures is an area where NLA “objects” and Trove “objects” are one and the same.

Helpful for #ArtHistoryAU #ArtHistory #NationalLibraryAU.

The Art Gallery of South Australia has lately put online a few more artworks by colonial artist George French Angas.

"Extinct Crater, Mount Gambier, 6th May 1844" is one I'd written about (from a book image in B&W). Seeing it in colour supports my contention that "Blue Lake" is by Gill not Angas (and it is not Blue Lake).

Article (with 8+ pictures) | The Mount Gambier pictures of Gill and Angas (and von Guerard) | https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Subject_Mount_Gambier.htm

#AGSAAdelaide #MountGambier #ArtHistory #ColonialArt #S_T_Gill #1840s #ArtHistoryAU #ColonialArtAU

Here's Port Adelaide in the 1840s.

Use the interactive map to see the port from the (literal) points of view of colonial artists. Overlaid on an historical map.

I've just updated this map - first developed in 2020 - with new content and a nicer "feel". (Best with computer or tablet, not phone.)

#PortAdelaide #SouthAustralia #1840s #HistoryAU #HistoricalMapping #uMap #ArtHistoryAU #S_T_Gill

Link via: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_in_Maps.htm#Port%20Adelaide

NEW ARTICLE: S.T. Gill 1848

* My first project article since November
* Extending the narrative and catalogue of the colonial artist
* Australia's first major industrial strike
* Economic downturn
* Start of Gill's foray into prints with Adelaide arrival of lithographers Penman & Co.
* 2nd Adelaide Exhibition of Colonial Artists
* Controversial discovery: E.L. Montefiore mispresents Conrad Martens artworks as his own?

#HistoryAU #SouthAustralia #S_T_Gill #1840s #ArtHistoryAU #CatalogueRaisonné #ArtHistory

https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_1848.htm

Turns out there was economic depression in 1848 (Britain) and it would have affected demand for art. (Having written about the downturn in the 1849 chapter I should have remembered this!)

To get a further handle on its impact I used @wragge's QueryPic - thanks Tim! - to graph use of the word "depression" in - in this case - South Australian newspapers from 1839 to 1851.

The graph's October 1848 peak is really obvious. Also shows the late 1840s copper boom and December 1851 gold rush.

Tool: https://glam-workbench.net/trove-newspapers/#querypic (You'll need a TroveAPI key.)

Image: frequency chart of "depression" mentions in South Australian newspapers from 1839 to 1851.

#HistoryAU #ArtHistoryAU #S_T_Gill #SouthAustralia #GLAMWorkbench #TroveAU

It’s February!

Image: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-134354667/view

#S_T_Gill 1847, #Adelaide, South Australia

My research: http://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill's_The_Seasons_and_The_Months.htm#127

#ArtHistoryAU

This morning I came across this 1840s watercolour of Government House, Adelaide in the State Library SA collection. It's attributed to Governor George Gawler as the artist, but I think it's actually by S T Gill and it's nearly identical to another Gill held by Art Gallery SA.

SLSA: https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+50/34/1
AGSA: https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/government-house-north-terrace-adelaide/24134/

#Adelaide #StateLibrarySA #AgsaAdelaide #ArtHistoryAU #1840s #S_T_Gill

I was once called an “interstate amateur art historian” in the press. My partner then gave me this T-shirt. I don’t think of myself as an historian, but I do admit to being interstate!

I think of myself more as an analyst in an historical sandpit. Also an “undollared scholar”.

I just finished reading “Rising Tensions in the New Age of the Everyman (and -woman) Historian: Why I’m Reluctant to Claim the Title Historian”, a chapter by Paul Daley in “The Australian History Industry” (2022).

Daley: “Labels, ultimately matter little. It’s what you bring to the table that counts. And there are plenty of seats.“

Borrowed from Libraries ACT.
#HistoryAU #histodons #CitizenHistory #ArtHistoryAU

Serendipitous (and off-track) find this morning in this book of excellent sketches of Melbourne mostly around 1880 - artist Louis Buvelot's house (mistitled). (The sketcher got the surname wrong and the catalogue followed.) In 1880 Buvelot was at 13 George Street, Fitzroy. Note in front says sketcher's dispute with #StateLibraryVIC led to the book eventually ending up in #StateLibraryNSW! (Buvelot owned several paintings by my research subject #S_T_Gill.)
#ArtHistoryAU #MelbourneHistory #Fitzroy
Browse sketchbook online: https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1wN2WZjn and see image 20.

Currently researching this portrait of John Horrocks - you may know him as "the only explorer to be shot by his camel". Notice anything unusual?

This is a 19th century photo of a no longer known painting. Could it be by S.T. Gill? Historical context being researched with SLSA and, as always, via Trove and other digitised and undigitised resources.

SLSA B 17027 / view: https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+17027

#SouthAustralia #StateLibrarySouthAustralia #1840s #ArtHistoryAU #ColonialArt #S_T_Gill #TroveAU

Currently researching this intriguing portrait of John Horrocks - you may know him as "the only explorer to be shot by his camel". Notice anything odd?

This is a 19th century photo of a no longer known painting. Could it be by S.T. Gill?

Historical context being researched with SLSA and, as always, via Trove and other digitised and undigitised resources.

SLSA B 17027 / view: https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+17027

#SouthAustralia #StateLibrarySouthAustralia #1840s #ArtHistoryAU #ColonialArt #S_T_Gill #TroveAU

#Introduction.
I'm a retired systems designer and developer living in Canberra. For interest I research the life and work of artist S T Gill 1840-1852. I'm using a data driven approach - including historical mapping - to build a “place and time machine”. I post content from the project. I also run a couple of U3A courses and I'll post some things from the garden.
IMAGE: Screenshot of interactive Adelaide map showing one of Gill's Government House watercolours.
#Canberra, #CanberraGarden, #U3A, #S_T_Gill, #HistoricalMapping, #ArtHistoryAU

From the 1840s to 1870s, colonial artist #S_T_Gill painted "Native Sepulchre" - a representation of an Aboriginal elevated mortuary platform. Originally written a year ago, I've added some later works to this article, showing further the transition from historical to genre painting for this subject.
CW. Read, view at https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Subject_Native_Sepulchre.htm
#ArtHistoryAu #ArtHistory