Image study: The burial of Burke

The members of Alfred Howitt's relief party burying the remains Robert O'Hara Burke. Strutt prepared this painting over the course of several years, interviewing people who were at the scene, and completing many preliminary sketches.

 

William Strutt, 1911. Painting: oil on canvas.

 

Accession number: H13087

 

From the State Library of Victoria's Pictures Collection.

 

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