An original Oil painting on stretched canvas.unframed, sides white, with a wire on the back, ready to hang. W 91.4 cm x H61cm x 1.9cm.

Titled "Pinchgut", this painting is Fort Denison situated in Sydney Harbour, looking from the opera house. The Aboriginal name is "Mat-te-wan-ye", but was called by the British as "rock island". It was called "pinch gut" after a convict was left there for a week on bread and water. It then was leveled when it was quarried. During the Crimean war, a Fort  was built to guard the colony from the Russians. However it was completed 3 years after the war had ended. Named Fort Denison it was hit by a shell from the USS Chicago in 1942 during the Japanese midget submarine attack in the harbour. H 91.4cm  W61 cm D 1.9cm