[GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 – N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads: The Stamping Machine / Victoria – Australia / GOLD / Eastern Annex; both of the prints and the mount are in fine condition.

One of a series of views of the display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition in London in 1862, published by the exhibition’s official photographers, the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company. A different photograph taken from the same vantage point includes a diorama with wax figures, illustrating men at work on the diggings. The centrepiece of the Victorian display (also not shown in this particular view) was a 44-feet-high gilded obelisk, a symbol of the enormous quantity of gold which had been mined in Victoria in the ten years or so since the gold rush had commenced.