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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.'
return to Banjo Patersons Australians