Preface: With pride and pleasure, the Library Committee of the Parliament of Victoria presents this edition of 'Victoria the Golden', completely produced in Victoria from the original folios.

'Victoria the Golden, scenes, sketches and jottings from nature... 1850-1862', annotated by the artist, William Strutt, has been in the Library of the Parliament of Victoria since 17th February, 1909.

Victoria the Golden is one of the Victorian Parliamentary Library’s great treasures. The album documents life in Victoria between 1850 and 1862 as viewed by artist William Strutt. Momentous events in the Colony’s history such as Separation Day (1 July 1851), the sitting of the first Legislative Council (13 November 1851), the death of Burke (June 1861) and the Black Thursday bushfires (6 February 1851) are depicted.

In 1907 the Premier of Victoria Thomas Bent purchased Victoria the Golden from Strutt for £120 and presented it to the Parliamentary Library. The album depicts events in chronological order with what Strutt considered “fidelity to nature and accuracy”, so that present day Victorians may view the sketches “as records of what we may now look upon as the dim past in the rapidly progressive history of Victoria”.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 81.