Accompanies the exhibition held at the National Gallery of Australia, 7 Mar. - 17 May 1998; National Gallery of Victoria, 3 Jun.-10 Aug. 1998; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Conn. 12 Sept.- 4 Jan. 1999; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 26 Jan. - 18 Apr. 1999. Contents: Likeness and unlikeness: the American-Australian experience / Patrick McCaughey p15. Landscape painting in America and Australia in an urban century / Elizabeth Johns p23. The shaping of Australian landscape painting / Andrew Sayers p53.. 'All nature here is new to art': painting the American landcsape, 1800-1900 / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser p71. The catalogue: Meeting the land p92. Claiming the land p121. In awe of the land p153. A landscape of contemplation p177. The figure defines the landscape p201. Artists in Australia: biographies: Ludwig Becker p225. William Blandowski p225. Knut Bull p225. Louis Buvelot p226. J.H. Carse p226. Nicholas Chevalier p227. David Davies p227. Augustus Earle p227. William Ford p228. John Glover p228. H.J. Johnstone p229. Joseph Lycett p229. Conrad Martens p229. Frederick McCubbin p230. W.C. Piguenit p230. John Skinner Prout p231. Tom Roberts p231. Clara Southern p232. Arthur Streeton p232. Eugene von Guerard p233. William Westall p233. Isaac Whitehead p234. Walter Withers p234. Artists in America: biographies p235. Index of works in exhibition p251. Chronology: cultural, social and historical events in Australia and the United States of America 1770-1901 p253..