Description
This is a watercolour by Duncan Cooper that depicts the first settlement at Challicum, a sheep run west of Ballarat in western Victoria. The watercolour shows the camp the men set up on New Year's Day, 1842 while they assessed the suitability of the land for running sheep. The two men depicted standing next to the campfire may be George and Harry Thomson, Cooper's partners. The watercolour, which measures 11.3 cm x 19.2 cm, is the first watercolour included in a field album that Cooper called 'The Challicum Sketch Book', and Cooper himself inscribed the words 'First Settlement at Challicum, Jany 1, 1842' on the mount.
Acknowledgements
| Copyright | Reproduced courtesy of National Library of Australia |
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| Creator | Duncan Cooper, artist, 1842 |
| Identifiers | National Library of Australia number nla.pic-an2680939
TLF resource R3301 |
| Source | National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au |
