This work by Richard Daintree (made between 1864 and 1870) is a photograph overpainted in oils. Much of the Australian countryside had scattered gum trees, as here. ‘The bush’ was not forest, but park-like woodland in which people could picnic in the sun. Before long, in Australia the word became a synonym for ‘the backblocks’.
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Oil painting by Richard Daintree
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