He is perhaps best known for his fine art illustrations to editions of Gargantua and Pantagruel and The Decameron published by Angus & Robertson.
Twelve of the original pen drawings for the edition of Rabelais were purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1949.
[1] The review in the Sydney Sun was full of praise:It is refreshing to find in Francis Broadhurst an Australian artist who follows the precedent set by Gustave Dore, Norman Lindsay, Heath Robinson and other famous moderns in illustrating the classic masterpieces.
In this large and beautifully-produced version of Gargantua and Pantagruel … he shows how finely his talent has developed.
[4]Later he turned to book design, and created the dusk jacket to Patricia Rolfe's The Journalistic Javelin (1979).