Stockman, 1864–65, chromolithograph, State Library Victoria

This colour lithograph from Australian sketchbook demonstrates the artist’s skill as one of Australia's greatest colonial equine artists, celebrating rural life and the romance of the bush. It was in this series of lithographs that Gill for the first time gave visual form to what has become known as 'the Australian character' – the tough, fiery individual who believes in mateship and in the spirit of the Australian bush.