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The White Hat Guide to William StruttWilliam Strutt
3 July 1825 - 3 January 1915
ArtistWilliam Strutt was only in Melbourne for a period of about twelve years. However the years from 1850 to 1862 were highly significant ones in the history of Melbourne, and Strutt, along with S.T. Gill left us some of our most enduring visual images of the period. Some of his works were painted in retrospect after returning to England. William Strutt's Burial of Burke (of Burke & Wills fame) is usually considered to be his finest painting and together with Black Thursday (bushfires) is on display at the State Library of Victoria. Other significant work relating to Melbourne history include his highly symbolic painting of stage coach passengers bailed up on a suburban road close to Melbourne. (This painting is in the collection of the Ian Potter Museum of Art.) His painting of John Fawkner is part of the collection of the State Library of Victoria. There are currently no books in print relating to William Strutt. However you may be lucky enough to stumble across the two excellent out-of-print books listed below. Occasionally one of them will crop up in an antiquarian book store, or you can but them online by clicking on the links below. A famous painting by William Strutt shows Robert O'Hara Burke being buried at Coopers Creek. However there is a large monument in Melbourne General Cemetery to Burke and Wills. Where is he really buried?
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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