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Stockriding on the Upper Murray District Australia
Edwin Roper Loftus Stocqueler, 1829-1895ca. 1856
State Library Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
The perceived romance of stockriding, combined with other pastoral activities such as cattle herding and fencing, was an important part of Australia's early self-image. In later years it was brought to its fullest flowering in literature, when writers such as Henry Lawson and Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson brought the legends of stockriders and bushmen to life in stories that still reverberate through the Australian consciousness today.
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- Title: Stockriding on the Upper Murray District Australia
- Creator: Edwin Roper Loftus Stocqueler, 1829-1895
- Date: ca. 1856
- Location: Victoria
- Rights: This work is out of copyright. No copyright restrictions apply.
- lithograph: Painting
- View more information about this image in the State Library Victoria catalogue: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:SLV_VOYAGER1712161
- View a full-size version of this image: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/248314
- Physical dimensions: 25.8 x 45.8 cm., in frame 35.0 x 55.4 cm.
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- A.E. Ferris: Edwin Stocqueler was born in Bombay and educated in England. Attracted by news of the discovery of gold, he arrived in Victoria in 1853, accompanied by his mother, Jane. For several years the Stocquelers lived in Bendigo, where Edwin completed many oil paintings of the diggings and of Bendigo itself. During this time, the Stocquelers undertook a canoe trip down the Murray, which was described in 'The Argus' on 4 December 1856: 'Mother and son go down the stream in a canoe. The lady paints flowers &c: the son devotes himself to choice views on the river's side.' During his time in Bendigo, Edwin Stocqueler prepared a large moving panorama, 'The Golden Land of the Sunny South', which was apparently a mile in length. No trace of it remains today. Stocqueler left Australia in 1859, travelling to India and Africa, and returning to England in the 1870s, where he died in straitened circumstances in 1895.
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