Bill Leak
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Desmond Robert "Bill" Leak was an Australian editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist.
Image: Waffen SSM cartoon by Bill Leak
The Big Picture (painting)
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The Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by H.R.H. The Duke of Cornwall and York, May 9, 1901, more commonly known in Australia as The Big Picture, is a 1903 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. The painting, measuring 304.5 by 509.2 centimetres, or roughly 10 by 17 feet, depicts the opening of the first Parliament of Australia at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne on 9 May 1901.
Roberts working on the painting at the Royal Exhibition Building