Information supplied drew attention to the ghostly figure on the lower left of the picture , beyond the safety fence , bent forward , as if about to throw herself off the precipice. The first suicide at The Gap , notorious for such sad events , took place on October 6, 1863 , when Anne Harrison, wife of The Gap Hotel licensee , jumped to her death .
Manchester born Stocks came to South Australia in the early 1850s , worked as a teacher , travelled to Western Australia , the Whitsunday Islands, New Zealand,Tasmania , Melbourne and Ballarat . He did many views of Sydney. It is believed the above painting was one of 31 prizes in an 1880 art union he ran in which there were 800 tickets for ten shillings each .
