1889 Our Defenders - Victorian Mounted Rifles Scouts Australia Maps Notes from the State Library

Notes from the State Library of Victoria tell us that this was "Originally published: Sydney : R

Heading up Collins Street to the right is Dunkling's the jeweller

basement and ground floor

except for the buildings on the south side of Collins Street

A photograph of the southern end of Elizabeth Street looking south towards Flinders Street Station sometime around 1910

1889 Our Defenders - Victorian Mounted Rifles Scouts Australia Maps Notes from the State LibraryA beautiful print from 1889 by George Rossi Ashton, depicting a scouting group of the Victorian Mounted Rifles. An illustration from the "Illustrated Australian News" of 1889. The artist was George Rossi Ashton (1857 1942). Ashton was born in England and emigrated to Australia in 1879. A painter and illustrator, he covered many topical events of the period including the capture of Ned Kelly in 1880. He worked for the 'Illustrated London News', the