No artist accompanied either expedition, so the source engravings on which the stamp scenes are based were created years later. Emile Ulm’s Blue Mountain Pioneers was published in the 1880 Christmas supplement of the Sydney Mail, and is presumably his impression of the party reaching the western-most point of its journey. The overland crossing is based on George French Angas’ Planting the Flag on the Shores of the Indian Ocean Coast, featured in the 1865 edition of Journals of John McDouall Stuart.
Details
- Series: 2012 Inland Explorers
- Subject: Blue Mountains Crossing 1813
- Designer: Craig McGill
- Product Designer: Sonia Young, Australia Post Design Studio
- Printer: McKellar Renown
- Press:
- Process: Lithography
- Colours:
- Paper: Tullis Russell
- Watermark: None
- Perf: 13.86 x 14.6 (comb)
- Sheet: 50 stamps
- Quantity: