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Australia, A Banyan Tree, Breadfruit Trees and Virgin Scrub, c1886
Australia, A Banyan Tree, Breadfruit Trees and Virgin Scrub, c1886
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Original Print from Garran's The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia
Date: c1886
Artists: Ashton, Julian Rossi
Publisher: Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co, Sydney
Paper Size: 160 x 295mm
Condition: good
Technique: Wood Engraving
Price: $60
Description: Original Wood Engraving with later hand colouring
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The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia
Published in Sydney in 1886-88, the enormous, multi-volume 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' was an attempt with words and pictures to describe the Australia of the time.
Its publication was one of the most significant cultural projects in 19th-century Australia. Writers, artists, academics, and politicians came together to prepare a book of unprecedented grandeur and ambition, and a publishing company was established to publish it. The 1100+ engravings on steel and wood contained in the Picturesque Atlas were among the finest engravings to be found anywhere in the world at this time, and many of the illustrations were specially commissioned works by leading Australian artists of the era, for the publication.
A unique and valuable historical record of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
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