Street art · London
Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim from New York City, CC BY 2.0
The Prosperity of Australia
By Harold Parker
Big flex energy carved in stone: "The Prosperity of Australia" stacks a toga'd goddess above buff shepherds and a ram, basically the Edwardian empire's humblebrag about wool, wheat and gains. Serious gym-bro marble game, 1915-18.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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