Australia at the Front Accession Number: ART19669.002

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Drawing for the cover design of 'Australia at the front: A colonial view of the Boer War', a book by Frank Wilkinson, London, 1901. Hardy based his illustrations for the book on sketches and photographs by the author who was a special war correspondent in South Africa.

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Accession Number
ART19669.002
Artist
Norman H. Hardy
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: pen, brush and ink with watercolour, with pencil
Measurement
Overall: 24.2 cm x 16 cm
Medium
pen, brush and ink with watercolour, with pencil
Date Made
c.1901
Place Made
Whole/Part
Child
Item Count
1
Credit Line
presented by Mrs B Howard 1958
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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