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Peace and War (Mr A. G. Hales)

1908
Sir Leslie Ward, Hentschel-Colourtype (lithographer) and Vanity Fair Magazine (publisher)

from the series ‘Vanity Fair’
chromolithograph on paper (sheet: 40.0 cm x 26.7 cm)

Alfred Arthur Greenwood Hales (1860-1936), adventurer, writer and newspaper correspondent, left school and started writing short stories in his teens. He worked in a variety of odd jobs (including fossicking, dingo-trapping and managing a boxer) and then on the WA goldfields in the 1890s. Here, he wrote accounts of goldfields life for local newspapers. Hales worked as a war correspondent during the Boer War and later worked as a freelance journalist in London.

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

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Artist and subject

Sir Leslie Ward (age 57 in 1908)

Hentschel-Colourtype

Vanity Fair Magazine

Alfred Arthur Greenwood Hales (age 48 in 1908)

Subject professions

Media and communications

Donated by

Ronald Walker (23 portraits)

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