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Description	Bushfires ravaged Gippsland in the summer of 1897–98, covering an area of about 1600 square kilometres. The worst day, 1 February 1898, was named ‘Red Tuesday’, recalling that other day of horror so memorably recorded by William Strutt in his Black Thursday, February 6th. 1851. John Longstaff visited Gippsland later in February 1898 to view the fires at first hand and collect material for a major picture. Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898 was exhibited in a dramatic installation in his Melbourne studio in August 1898. A row of kerosene-lamp ‘footlights’ provided the illumination, and the effect was said to be ‘lurid and startlingly realistic’. -- http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/bushfire/lon.shtml
Source	image from [1], the painting is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria
Date	1898
Author	John Longstaff (1862 - 1941)
Permission (Reusing this image)	As the image is now public domain due to the age of the work, permission is no longer required.
Other versions	There is a different shaded version, slightly bigger, at [2].

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