Charles Eaton: wake for the melancholy shipwreck

Australian maritime history

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Published July 21, 2012 at 360 × 493 in Part One: outward bound

“Seeking Fortune”, oil painting by Nicholas Chevalier, first exhibited in 1877 but thought to be about the emigration to Australia of a young friend in 1852.

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