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20-515: The original edition of the book was illustrated by the Australian artists A. J. Fischer, Albert Henry Fullwood , G. W. Lambert , Fred Leist , Frank P. Mahony and Alf Vincent . Towards the end of 1895 Davis sent to The Bulletin a sketch Starting The Selection based on his father's experience. The sketch was published on 14 December 1895. Encouraged by J. F. Archibald , the editor and publisher of The Bulletin , Davis continued writing

40-501: A daughter Marjorie Clyda. Both Philip and Marjorie pre-deceased him. Dad and Dave from Snake Gully Dad and Dave from Snake Gully was an Australian radio drama series based on the On Our Selection stories of Steele Rudd . The series is more often referred to simply as Dad and Dave . The theme tune was " The Road to Gundagai ". The standard accent used by actors and announcers in Australian broadcasting at

60-564: A lithographic draughtsman and designer. He joined the Art Society of New South Wales in 1884, and shortly afterwards obtained a position on the staff of the Picturesque Atlas of Australia , for which he traveled a good deal through Northern Australia and did many drawings. He later worked on The Sydney Mail and other illustrated papers of the time. He kept up his painting, and in 1892 two of his water-colours were purchased for

80-520: A love triangle. Though it did well in Australia, it failed in London in 1920. In 1920, Davis sold the film rights to the stories to producer E.J. Carroll . Carroll did not have the rights to Bert Bailey's play adaptations, so the plot was based directly on the original work. Raymond Longford directed the 1920 silent film version of On Our Selection . In 1932, Bert Bailey's stage version was filmed in

100-416: A talking film version of the stories. The 1932 film version of On Our Selection was directed by Ken G. Hall , who also co-wrote the script with Bailey. Most of the cast had appeared in the stage version. The movie was one of the most popular Australian films of all time. In 1995, a new version titled Dad and Dave: On Our Selection was produced, a remake of the 1920 silent film version, the version which

120-586: Is most affectionately dedicated "Steele Rudd".' The initial print run was of the collection was 3,000 copies in 1899; 3,750 in 1901; 5,000 in 1902 and 8,450 in 1903. Albert Henry Fullwood Albert Henry Fullwood (15 March 1863 – 1 October 1930) was an Australian artist who made a significant contribution to art in Australia. He painted with Heidelberg School artists around Melbourne and moved with Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton to live and paint at their camp in Sirius Cove, Sydney. Fullwood

140-714: The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts , and in the Australian War Memorial . A significant painting of the early Ballarat streetscape is held by Ballarat Art Gallery and a very large watercolour of Chalk Quarries ( c.  1910 ) is held in a private collection in Doreen, Victoria . He married Clyda Blanche Newman, daughter of photographer John Hubert Newman, on 13 October 1896 in Sydney . They had two sons, Philip L. Fullwood and Geoffrey Barr Fullwood, and

160-428: The collection "really admirable" and went on "As the title implies, the story—or rather the series of sketches—deals with the duties of a family on a New South Wales selection. Anyone reared in the bush in Australia must admit the truthfulness of the study, with its manifold parings and scrapings, its many attempts to evade the miseries of the moneyless, and the vain attempts to make profits on a selection which was, to say

180-558: The front rank of Australian artists, like Vincent, Fischer, Lambert, Mahoney, Fullwood, and Leist, have lent their beat energies to catching the author's method, his moods and his types. Usually illustration hinder rather than help the text, but in this case the reverse is the order, and it is doubtful whether anybody could fully understand the personality of Dad, Mother, and the others without Vincent's delightful pen-and-ink sketches." A reviewer in The Western Mail (Perth) called

200-480: The land and often managed to circumvent the law. The Bulletin published the illustrated collection comprising 26 stories in 1899 as On Our Selection . Within four years 20,000 copies had been printed. It afterwards appeared in numerous cheap editions and by 1940 the number of copies sold had reached 250,000. A reviewer in The Queenslander , after pointing out that the author was a Queenslander and that

220-495: The least of it, very unwilling to provide even a living for "Dad" and the rest of them." The stories have also been the basis of a play and several films. Davis sold the rights to a stage version of On Our Selection to Bert Bailey . The play was first produced by his company on 4 May 1912 at the Palace Theatre, Sydney . The play version deviated from the original version by the addition of subplots involving murder and

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240-619: The national gallery at Sydney. Albert Fullwood painted alongside members of the Heidelberg School at Eaglemont around 1889 to 1891. This period was a crucial time for the Heidelberg School , as it marked the peak of their plein air painting activities. In 1895 Fullwood took a leading part in forming the Society of Artists in Sydney and was a member of its first council. He returned to Europe in 1900 by way of America, holding on

260-615: The series of sketches. The stories were originally written about different families but accepting a suggestion by A. G. Stephens , a writer at The Bulletin , the work was reconstructed as the experiences of the Rudd family. In Australian history, a selection was a "free selection before survey" of crown land under legislation introduced in the 1860s, similar to the United States Homestead Act . Selectors often came into conflict with squatters , who already occupied

280-410: The silences of the bush-lands and made them ours; To you who delved and toiled in loneliness through the years that have faded away; To you who have no place in the history of our country so far as it is yet written; To you who have done most for this land; To you for whom few, in the march of settlement, in the turmoil of busy city life, now appear to care; And to you particularly, Good Old Dad, This book

300-459: The stories were set in Queensland, was very impressed with the work: " It is a volume whose recommendation rests solely on its own excellence, and that excellence is more than sufficiently great to guarantee a hearty welcome and a keen appreciation of "Steele Rudd's" talent...No review of the book would be complete without a reference to the excellent illustrations which enliven its pages. Men in

320-448: The time was typically " Southern English ", an upper class British version that emulated the BBC . The actual Australian accent was however acceptable only in low comedy productions as in this series "Dad and Dave from Snake Gully." This famous Australian radio drama series can still be heard on Melbourne's Golden Days Radio 95.7FM (GDR95.7fm) every Saturday morning at 8.30am. The program

340-853: The way a very successful exhibition of his work in New York City . Making London his headquarters, Fullwood exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1901, 1904, and later years, and also at various exhibitions in Europe. Soon after World War I started, Fullwood joined the Allied Art Corps; later he was a sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps based at the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, and later an Australian official war artist. He returned to Sydney in 1920 and worked chiefly in water-colour and etching. Fullwood

360-754: Was a co-founder, with John Shirlow , of the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society. He died from pneumonia in the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley, New South Wales . Fullwood is represented in numerous galleries including the Art Gallery of New South Wales , the National Gallery of Victoria , the Art Gallery of South Australia , the Wollongong Art Gallery, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ,

380-493: Was by then in the public domain. The film was presented as an honour to the centenary of Australian cinema, but the version was not especially successful. There was also a radio series of the work, Dad and Dave from Snake Gully , which began in 1937. Epigraph: 'Pioneers of Australia! To you "Who gave Our Country Birth;" To the memory of you whose names, whose giant enterprise, whose deeds of fortitude and daring were never engraved on tablet or tombstone; To you who strove through

400-772: Was the Australian official war artist to the 5th Division in the World War I . Fullwood was born in Hockely , Birmingham , son of Frederick John Fullwood, jeweller, and his wife Emma, née Barr. From 1878, Fullwood studied art at evening classes at the Birmingham Institute. He studied art at the Birmingham School of Landscape Art at the Birmingham YMCA. After graduation, he migrated to Sydney in 1883 and obtained work at John Sands Limited as

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