Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :A winter's day at Macetown. [18]87.

Three horses, saddled and with their traces dragging on the ground, stamping their feet in the snow outside a single-storied shop, Elliotts, in the broad main street of an otherwise empty gold-mining town. Other buildings in the distance and mountain-tops just visible through the heavy grey clouds in the background.

Macetown was a flourishing gold-mining town in the late 1860s and early 1870s but had become a ghost town by the early 20th century.

Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title [in pencil in the hand of the artist]; Recto - bottom right - W. M. H. 87 [in brushpoint in the hand of the artist]

Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour 173 x 250 mm