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original oil painting by Dorothy Gauvin

Illustration         Champ and Challenger
Artist                 Dorothy Gauvin
Medium             Oils  on Linen Canvas
Dimensions         91.5 x 122 cms(36 x 48 ins)
Painting status     Sold - in a private collection
Published as        Plate 20 inside Banjo Paterson's Australians  pub. 1989,1997                     


This painting illustrates a poem  by A.B.Paterson (extract below)
 

Hay and Hell and Booligal
First published April 1896

'Of course, there isn't much to see - The billiard table used to be
The great attraction for us all, until some careless, drunken curs
Got sleeping on it in their spurs, and ruined it, in Booligal.'

 

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