Publisher: The Mail Publishers, Footscray.

Format: Folio of fourteen (14) linocuts by ten artists in paper wrappers with a Noel Counihan linocut tipped to cover. Each image with a letterpress number in lower margin, some images initialled in block by artists. Images range from 17 x 15cm to 20.3 x 17.7cm; folio 29.2 x 23cm.

Accompanied by four pages of letterpress text with a short history of the stockade and a list of prints.

Print titles and artists are

  1. Ray Wenban, Peter Lalor
  2. Noel Counihan, Joe! Joe! The Traps are Coming!
  3. Pat O’Connor, The Licence Hunt
  4. Noel Counihan, The Magistrate
  5. Noel Counihan, On Bakery Hill
  6. Peter Miller, Burn the Licences!
  7. Ailsa O’Connor, Building the Stockade
  8. Len Gale, The Blacksmith
  9. Ernie McFarlane, The Blacksmith
  10. Peter Miller, The Sly-Grog Seller
  11. Maurice Carter, The Sentry
  12. Peter Miller, The Pikemen
  13. Naomi Shipp, Trampling the Flag
  14. Mary Zuvella, After the Battle

This portfolio was printed in an edition of 500 and produced by the Melbourne Popular Art Group – a “left wing Melbourne collective sympathetic to the unionist sentiments of the Ballarat miners.” Ref: NLA; NGV.

Foxing, tears and creases to wrappers, split to fold. Prints clean and bright overall.