Scottish-born painter and decorator, Alexander Webb, was also an amateur artist who produced several landscapes and streetscapes, including this 1872 view of Yarra Street in Geelong with intimate vignettes of the population going about their daily business. Webb would have known many of the individuals depicted including such notable characters as retired Sailing Captain, William Keller, who suffered from severe arthritis and is seen here riding in a goat-cart specially made for him or the Aboriginal figure, possibly King Billy, the last of the Barrabool tribe, who is in the process of selling one of his boomerangs to an interested rider.