{"product_id":"australia-gundagai-c1886","title":"Australia, Gundagai, c1886","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginal Print from Garran's The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDate: c1886\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtist: Fitler, William, Crowthers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co, Sydney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaper Size: 180 x 125mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTechnique: Wood Engraving\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrice: $120\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription: Original Wood Engraving with later hand colouring\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter Fitler's 1885-1886 Travels around Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Picturesque Atlas of Australasia \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished in Sydney in 1886-88, the enormous, multi-volume \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Picturesque Atlas of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAustralasia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e was an attempt with words and pictures to describe the Australia of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIts 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA unique and valuable historical record of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/antiquarianprintshop.com\/blogs\/interesting-points-about-antique-prints\/the-picturesque-atlas-of-australasia\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRead More \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiography: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFitler, William Crowthers (1857-1915)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFitler was born in Philadelphia in 1857 and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was a tonalist landscape painter and most of his works depict views of New York, Connecticut, or Long Island. Fitler was a member of the Salmagundi Club, New York Watercolor Club, Brooklyn Art Association, Artists Fund Society, and New York Municipal Art Society. Fitler came to Australia with Fred B. Schell and W.T. Smedley to work on Australia’s most ambitious and largest colonial publishing venture the, Picturesque Atlas of Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn his return to America he exhibited widely and was included in shows at the National Academy (1880-1907), Brooklyn Art Club (1881-1886), and Boston Art Club (1881-1908).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Antiquarian Print Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39574704947286,"sku":"","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1617\/1641\/products\/Aust_Gundagai_ogwoodengaftersketchbyWilliamCFitler_pubinSydneyc1886_p178x125_120.jpg?v=1634099815","url":"https:\/\/antiquarianprintshop.com\/products\/australia-gundagai-c1886","provider":"Antiquarian Print Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}