Pair of Baxter Prints, ‘News from Australia’ , ‘News from Home’ , 1853-4
$740.00 AUD
Pair of Baxter Prints, ‘News from Australia’ and ‘News from Home’ ,
the English scene with cottage fireside scene, where a letter is being excitedly red by a cobbler’s young daughter, the coppler with a £100 cheque that has come from the wealthy Australian migrant with the letter, a poster on the wall advertising ‘EMIGRATION to AUSTRALIA on the SHIP HOPE’ ;
the Australian scene with three white migrants and two aboriginal natives in a makeshift hut, one reading a letter from home, a reclining well-dressed man in the background reading a newspaper featuring the ‘GREAT EXHIBITION’ of 1851, with various settler’s equipment piled everywhere, a white cockatoo on a ring suspended form the ceiling and a group of hunting dogs through the open door, their ‘kills’ piled inside ready for butchering & dinner.
Printed 1853-4
Very good condition with colour still bright, well framed recently.
Size: frame 36.5×51.5cm, each work visible 10.5x15cm
The back with a photocopy of the works from a book, with captions.
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