Author: BUTLER, Roger
Title: Printed Images in Colonial Australia 1801-1901.
Description: Canberra, National Gallery of Australia - Gordon Darling Foundation 2007, xvii,294pp, Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 2,3kg. In very good condition. Pakketzending. "This book reveals some of the remarkable colonial works that form the cornerstones of the National Gallery of Australias collection of Australian prints. The earliest intaglio prints were produced in New South Wales by a free settler, John Lewin, whose exquisitely hand-colored etchings of moths and birds were published in 1805 and 180813. The first views of the colony to be printed locally were published in 181214 by an entrepreneurial emancipist and engraved by the convicts assigned to him. From a culture of making do in the early decades of the penal settlement, the extent, quality, and scope of print production increased exponentially and kept pace with developments overseas. The backgrounds of the printmakers whose work is discussed varied greatly, with professional trade workers and artists making equally important contributions. By the mid-nineteenth century, printmaking was firmly established in key areas of commercial enterprise, science, architecture, art, advertising, illustrated books, and newspapers. Through the second half of the century printmaking in Australia continued to match developments overseas. One particular high point for wood-engravers was the production of the lavish Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, published between 188688, to coincide with the centenary of European settlement. Printed Images in Colonial Australia concludes with the photogravure of Tom Robertss painting commissioned to celebrate the federation of the Australian states in 1901. The 377 images reproduced here, many of them exceedingly rare or long overlooked, are presented alongside Roger Butlers original research and information not previously assembled to give full weight to the important role of the printed image in Australian art and culture.".
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Title: Printed Images in Colonial Australia 1801-1901.
Description: Canberra, National Gallery of Australia - Gordon Darling Foundation 2007, xvii,294pp, Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 2,3kg. In very good condition. Pakketzending. "This book reveals some of the remarkable colonial works that form the cornerstones of the National Gallery of Australias collection of Australian prints. The earliest intaglio prints were produced in New South Wales by a free settler, John Lewin, whose exquisitely hand-colored etchings of moths and birds were published in 1805 and 180813. The first views of the colony to be printed locally were published in 181214 by an entrepreneurial emancipist and engraved by the convicts assigned to him. From a culture of making do in the early decades of the penal settlement, the extent, quality, and scope of print production increased exponentially and kept pace with developments overseas. The backgrounds of the printmakers whose work is discussed varied greatly, with professional trade workers and artists making equally important contributions. By the mid-nineteenth century, printmaking was firmly established in key areas of commercial enterprise, science, architecture, art, advertising, illustrated books, and newspapers. Through the second half of the century printmaking in Australia continued to match developments overseas. One particular high point for wood-engravers was the production of the lavish Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, published between 188688, to coincide with the centenary of European settlement. Printed Images in Colonial Australia concludes with the photogravure of Tom Robertss painting commissioned to celebrate the federation of the Australian states in 1901. The 377 images reproduced here, many of them exceedingly rare or long overlooked, are presented alongside Roger Butlers original research and information not previously assembled to give full weight to the important role of the printed image in Australian art and culture.".
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Price: EUR 29.00 = appr. US$ 31.52 Seller: Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers
- Book number: 64698
- Book number: 64698