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Dreaming up the Victoria
1994
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Dreaming up the Victoria (1994) consists of some 18 large aerial impressions of the Northern Territory’s longest and most majestic river. The pastel drawings depict, and loosely follow, the course taken by Captain John Clement Wickham and Commander John Lort Stokes who in the Beagle had explored and named the river in 1839. |
- Holdfast Reach
- 1994
- pastel on paper
- 42x60cm
- collection: estate of Elizabeth Durack
- It was here the Beagle anchored and the expedition proceeded up river in row boats. On return to Holdfast Reach after approximately one month the Beagle's anchor's and cables were immovable and had to be abandoned.