For biographical and background information see Acc. no. 1988.048 'Additional information'. S.T. Gill's 'Australian sketchbook', although not dated, was published in 1865. The lithographs (Acc. nos 2:0503-2:0527, plus cover 2:0528) were produced either from earlier drawings or based on memory. These images chronicle life on the gold fields as well as depicting scenes of rural life and Aborigines. A man with his stick, smoking a pipe and carrying a red spotted handkerchief is walking behind a flock of sheep with his dog. A cottage and sheepfold are in the distance on the left. The sun is setting behind a rock in centre- right. On some properties shepherds were forbidden to smoke while working and spirits were totally outlawed. This shepherd has a bottle in his kerchief.