View upon the South Esk River, Van Diemen's Land dangar island where young painters like Tom

where young painters like Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton whiled away the 1890s depression in creative bliss at places like Balmoral and the Curlew Camp at little Sirius Cove

designed by the National Capital Development Commission (NCDC)

The cleared land between the escarpment and the sea left a picturesque maritime rural landscape

enduring arduous conditions in uncharted mountains and rainforests

View upon the South Esk River, Van Diemen's Land dangar island where young painters like TomCreator Joseph Lycett Date 1825 From Joseph Lycett's Views in Australia, or, New South Wales & Van Diemen's Land delineated, in fifty views: dedicated by permission to the Right Honble. Earl Bathurst, 1824 1825 Source: State Libary of Victoria