William Strutt
Studies of a Woman holding a Crying Baby
Pencil
22 x 14.3 cm
Inscribed on reverse in another hand Black Thursday
Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne
Strutt painted Black Thursday from sketches based on observer accounts of the bushfires that ravaged Victoria on the 6th February, 1851. Descriptions included accounts of women and children rushing from their burning huts
Biographical entry Australian Dictionary of Biography online
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