| Main Title: |
The vision splendid / Stephanie Owen Reeder ; National Library of Australia. |
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| Author: |
Reeder, Stephanie Owen
National Library of Australia
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| Imprint: |
National Library of Australia, ||2011. |
| Collation: |
176 p. : col. ill., bib., index, pbk ; 29 cm. |
| Summary: |
The Vision Splendid features the sketchbooks of 22 nineteenth-century artists, ranging from well-known professionals like Eugene von Gurard and John Glover to amateurs about whom little is known. These artists, engineers, surveyors, military men, solicitors, public servants and pastoralists all delighted in recording what they saw and then sharing it with family, friends and the wider public. The sketches reveal what colonial life in Australia was like at that time, both in the country and in the city, and the challenges the artists faced depicting landscapes that were so different from those in Europe. |
| Subject: |
National Library of Australia
Art collections
Art and artists
Landscape drawing and painting
Nineteenth (19th) century
Biography
Australia
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| ISBN: |
9780642277244 (pbk.) |
| Notes: |
"All the sketchbooks in this book are held by the Pictures Collection in the National Library of Australia" -- p. 170.
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