• Title
  Black Thursday 1850 The Track of Death
• Creator
  William Strutt, 1825-1915
• Call number
  DG V*/Gen/22
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1850
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  411332
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - ink & watercolour - 33.4 x 43.4 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a1528204
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed & dated lower left "William Strutt / 1850". Underneath image on mount is inscribed "For 50 miles he rode with fires each side of him. The road strewed with dead + dying animals of all sorts + birds etc / An Australian Squatter. an absolutely accurate type"
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Presumably relates to the bush fire of 1851, and wrongly dated by the artist.
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Animals--Australia--Pictorial works.
  
• Topic
  bushfires
  colonial art
  horses
  pioneer bush life
  squatters
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Equinity - State Library of New South Wales (15 October - 10 December, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3143941

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