Koorliatto, New South Wales, 1861 [picture] / W.O. Hodgkinson
- Bib ID:
- 4193232
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Hodgkinson, W. O. (William Oswald), 1835-1900
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1861
- 1 drawing : pencil ; 15.7 x 15.7 cm., on sheet 22.0 x 24.1 cm.
- Series:
- Album of Miss Eliza Younghusband, South Australia, 1856-1865.
- Summary:
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The pencil drawing shows the camp and camels set up at Koorliatto, north of Menindee. The drawing was a gift from the artist to Eliza Younghusband in 1861 prior to his joining the SA Burke Relief Expedition.
- Biography/History:
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William Oswald Hodgkinson born in Warwick, England and first came to Australia in 1851, returning to England in 1854 for work before returning to work as a journalist for the Melbourne Age in 1859. On the 20th August 1860 Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills set out from Melbourne on the ill-fated expedition to reach the Gulf of Carpentaria, about 2,800 kilometres. The inland area was unexplored by Europeans. Hodgkinson left Melbourne to join the Burke & Wills Expedition on 10th September 1861 at Swan Hill as an assistant. He was a member of Wright's team travelling from Menindee to Bulloo. He briefly joined the Howitt led Victorian Relief Expedition when they reached Menindee and was later appointed McKinlay's second-in-command on the SA Burke Relief Expedition. Hodgkinson married Kate Robertson in Rockhampton, became the editor of the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin was a gold-field warden and politician. He died on the 23 July 1900.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription.
- In: Album of Miss Eliza Younghusband, South Australia, 1856-1865.
- Inscriptions: signed "W.O.H."--In ink lower right; "Koorliatto"--In ink lower right; "I. Arid sandhills, crowned with pine, tainted water, mirage fine, Withered shrubs, and thorny ground, May amid this scene be found. II. Why should memory here retrace, Features destitute of grace, Spots which Nature's angry hand, Clothes with mounds of burning sand? III. This the reason briefly told- Foolish mortals prize as gold- Every memory of the past, With Danger linked or Death o'ercast."--Poem in ink beneath drawing.
- Condition: Yellowing, foxing and stains.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147606017
- Subject:
- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: Pioneers of the Inland: Australia's Muslim Cameleers 1860's - 1930's, National Library of Australia, 13 December 2007 - 17 February 2008
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Album of Miss Eliza Younghusband, South Australia, 1856-1865.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1900
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1861
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