Mr Hill's History Painting

This richly-illustrated book is framed around Charles Hill's celebrated painting, The Proclamation of South Australia 1836. The book unpacks and explores the histories - intentional, implicit and disputed - in Hill's painting.

Who are the people in the painting? Why are they there? Where did they come from, and what happened to them after 1836? Mr Hill's History Painting provides a fresh look at the best-known event in South Australia's history in its global context of mass migration, colonial settlement and first contact between Aboriginal and European people. This book connects the picture, the people, the proclamation and the place depicted in the painting, and the role they played in developing a story about the founding of a free British province on the far side of the world.