A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas | National Library of Australia
A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas Original drawings and paintings by the artists of A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas from Friday 12 March to Sunday 11 July 2021. Published in supplements between 1886 and 1889, the Atlas set out to document through illustrations, maps and text a settler-colonial view of Australia's history, landscape and ways of life, and did so with the aid of over 800 remarkable steel- and wood-engraved illustrations. It was also a catalyst for the art movement that followed, now known as Australian impressionism. The exhibition...
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