'Men's huts, Challicum, 1848'

'Men's huts, Challicum, 1848'

Description

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'.

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