Stockyards at Araluen NSW c1850 | Artist Unknown
Artist Unknown
Stockyards at Araluen NSW c1850
18 cm x 31 cm
Pencil on laid paper
Titled verso
A beautifully naive piece of colonial drawing depicting stockyards at Araluen, just outside of Braidwood NSW. It is likely that the drawing was completed c 1850.
The back of the sheet titles the work ‘Stockyards at ‘Araluen’
Araluen is one of the most famous Gold Mining towns in New South Wales. Today the town mainly consists of a few buildings and orchards. It is believed that ‘Araluen’ was probably translated from the Aboriginal words ‘ Arr-a l-yin’, perhaps meaning ‘place of the water lilies’. In 1851 gold was found in the Araluen Valley and within months there were 15,000 people inhabiting the area. Over the course of the gold rush, some $11 million worth of gold was taken from the field.
(Sydney Morning Herald)
$ 1650
