Sujet

A Ride Across Australia - sketches by Mr. A. J. Vogan, 1890. Creator: P Naumann.

Légende

A Ride Across Australia - sketches by Mr. A. J. Vogan, 1890. '1. Our Camp on a Rainy Night. 2. Drinking the Health of the Bore: First Successful Tapping. 3. Interior of an Out-station. 4. Mud-spring on the Border of the Desert. 5. Our Boys Playing at Bingeroo. Mr. Vogan writes: "in addition to numerous permanent water-holes...there are the mud-springs. One of these I discovered myself some fifteen miles from the old head station of Bindiakka...Mr. G. Field, the managing partner, has been very successful in boring for artesian water near some of these springs. My sketch shows one of the most successful of these, giving 150,000 gallons of water per day...[Another sketch shows] our 'boys' at the curious fire-side game of 'Bingeroo.' The fun consists in making the leaves of a species of eucalyptus twirl round and rise in the air, over a roaring fire. The leaves are heated, moulded with the fingers...[and] given a twirl...The ascending current of air carries them...Up and down, the little leaf-boats swoop and tower, whirling away swiftly, while these childish men shriek with delight, jump and jabber...These leaves, when twirled over a hot, large fire, on a still night, will mount fifty feet in the air".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A51_149

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,1Mo (9,5Mo) / 30,9cm x 42,3cm / 3644 x 4999 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather travel nature Europe river leisure water tree Caucasian people black male man men plant plants arts Australia Australian night country adventure playing arid fountain fountains dark hot game gum tree eucalyptus society remote white art guy pot pots cooking cookery reading campfire fire continent spring British raining rain geography European Oceania wilderness bush heat native camping darkness location century Colonial Britain rainy newspapers press print travellers traveller rainfall outback concept aborigine Aboriginal controversy pastime time of day B&W europeans adventurer adventurers controversial engraved engraving settler 19th century camping out black & white black and white B W borehole nineteenth century trees The Print Collector camp fire colonialism colonisation cooking pot geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN Royal Geographical Society indigenous newspaper settlers indigenous people P Naumann Naumann P coloniser colonisers 19th-century pipkin The Illustrated London News Never-Never Land Royal Geographical Society of Australasia Arthur James Vogan Vogan Arthur James A. J. Vogan Vogan A. J.