This is a watercolour by Duncan Cooper that depicts the huts provided for male farm labourers at Challicum, a sheep run west of Ballarat in western Victoria. In the foreground is a creek spanned by a narrow and rudimentary bridge weighted with rocks. The watercolour, which measures 13.4 cm x 19.4 cm, is the nineteenth watercolour included in a field album that Cooper called 'The Challicum Sketchbook'.
Copyright | Reproduced courtesy of National Library of Australia |
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Creator | Duncan Cooper, artist, 1848 |
Identifiers | National Library of Australia number nla.pic-an2682318
TLF resource R3305 |
Source | National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au |