Blue Mountains crossed, 1813 [picture] / N.H. Roughley
- Bib ID:
- 5232318
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Roughley, N. H
- Related Online Resources:
- POSTER 2023-2158 copy
- Printer:
- (Sydney : Offset Press)
- Description:
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- [Sydney? : s.n., 191-?]
- 1 poster : col. ill. ; 36 x 99 cm.
- Series:
- Epoch educational friezes".
- Summary:
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Poster of artwork depicting three men (two standing and one sitting) on the mountain ridge and looking into the far mountain range.
- Biography/History:
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In 1813, Gregory Blaxland, William Charles Wentworth, and Lieutenant Lawson, along with four servants, pack horses and dogs, set off on an exploration which was to create history. On the 11th May 1813 the explorers departed from Emu Plains reaching the foothills of the Blue Mountains, or Glenbrook as it is known today. They recorded the trek required constant hacking through thick scrub and treading through "damp dew-laden undergrowth". Having insufficient food and also in fear of attack by Aborigines. These factors, in combination with sickness, nearly saw the men defeated by the rugged terrain. 29th May 1813, the Blue Mountains was no longer considered an impassible barrier following the discovery of the gently sloping mountains to the west.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- "Epoch educational friezes".
- POSTER 2023-2158 copy Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
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- Blaxland, Gregory, 1778-1853 -- Posters
- Wentworth, W. C. (William Charles), 1790-1872 -- Posters
- Lawson, William, 1774-1850 -- Posters
- Voyages and travels 1750-1800 -- Posters
- Explorers -- New South Wales -- Blue Mountains -- Posters
- Discoveries in geography -- Posters
- Posters, Australian
- Posters -- Australia
- Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Posters
- New South Wales -- Discovery and exploration -- Posters
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1919
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1919
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