Arrival of the cattle drovers

This painting shows an imagined scene of "first contact" between Europeans and Indeigenous people. The arrival of European settlers and their herds of sheep and cattle in Australia certainly had an enormous impact upon the lives of  indigenous Australians.

 

Watercolour, c1930

 

Accession number: H26595

 

From the State Library of Victoria's Pictures collection.

 

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Tarnishing the crown