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Main Title:
Cultured colonists : George Alexander Gilbert and his family, settlers in Port Phillip / Margaret Bowman.
Author:
Bowman, Margaret
Imprint:
Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014.
Collation:
xii, 125 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), paperback ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Gilbert, G. A. (George Alexander), 1815-approximately 1885.
Melbourne Athenaeum
Gilbert family
Victorian Community History Award Nominations
Education
Art and artists
Colonial times
Pioneers
Biography
Melbourne [Naarm] (Vic.) (Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country)
Geelong (Vic.) (Wadawurrung Country)
Victoria
ISBN:
9781925003642 1925003647
Notes:
George Alexander Gilbert arrived in Melbourne in 1841 just as tentative steps were being taken to enrich the cultural life of the new settlement. As a teacher, creative artist and the founder of the city's first art school he was to do much to advance the visual arts. Margaret Bowman is an Australian historian.
Includes bibliographical references: pages 108-125.
Victorian Community History Awards 2014 - Small Publication Award - winner
Result
Collection
Location
Shelf No
Status
Notes
Non-Fiction
Main Library
994.502 GIL BOW
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