Description
The first issue of this very rare supplement to The Illustrated Adelaide Post, published January 1869 of an Australian bushman dreaming of a white Christmas back home.
There were two later issues published as a supplement to The Illustrated Australian News December 27, 1869 and also in December, 1869 in the Illustrated Sydney News. It was quite common for the illustrated newspaper of the time, to exchange the wood engraved blocks with newspapers publishers in other Australian states or New Zealand.
The Colonial Monthly, when edited by Marcus Clarke, called Cousins ‘a young artist of undoubted merit and ability’ and stated that his Bushman’s Dream surpassed all local illustrations in beauty.
