b'125554551 554JAMES ALEXANDER CRISP (1879-1962), EMILY LETITIA PAUL (1866-1917),(magpies at dawn), Portrait of a Paper Boy, Paris, 1910,watercolour. oil on canvas, laid down on linen,signed lower right James A. Crisp, 19, signed lower right Emily Paul,32.5 x 26cm, 46 x 38cm overall 67 x 54.5cm, 71 x 56cm overall.$400600In 1914 Sydney artist Emily Paul, was selected by the Newtown branch of the Socialist Party of Australia as the 552 candidate for the Federal seat of Cook, with a platform that ARTIST UNKNOWN, was against war, conscription, and the White Australia policy, and in favour of the financial emancipation of women. Her (three kookaburras on a branch), portrait of a working-class French paperboy selling the popular gouache on paper, daily Le Petit Journal, was painted by her in Paris in 1910. The signed lower right (illegible), work unites romanticism and social realism. She stated that 14 x 23cm, 24 x 34cm overall her experience of the poverty of children in the Latin Quarter $250350of Paris had strongly reinforced her socialist activism. After her death in Sydney in January 1917, Direct Action recorded that A few days before she died her wish was to know how the 553 boys at Long Bay [Gaol] were faring. ALVAH EARLINGTON ROSEBRAY (1880-1913), $400600koala and goanna in a gumtree,watercolour,signed lower left A. Earlington Rosebray, N.S.W. 36,37 x 27cm, 50 x 40.5cm overall.ROSEBRAY was a popular watercolourist of Australian fauna, exhibited at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales from 1904. Many of his works had an anthropomorphic slant, and his work is represented in the Art Gallery of N.S.W.$400600 '