Gill's prodigious output - more than 2000 works - documents a broad range of subjects including his experiences on the Victorian goldfields and horseback travels in both settled areas and the Australian bush. Mounted stockmen often feature as Gill was once described by The Argus as 'one to whom the stockwhip is as familiar as the pencil' (Melbourne, 1 March 1856, p. 6).
This work is from a sketchbook originally intended as a joint publishing venture between Gill and amateur watercolourist Dr John Thomas Doyle. Of 10 drawings relating to bush life, six specifically reference stock work.
