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Australia, Tasman's 1644 Carpenter Landing c1886

Australia, Tasman's 1644 Carpenter Landing c1886

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Dutch Explorer Abel Tasman mapped the North Coast of Australia in 1644. 

This print is an original copy of that sketch showing Tasman's Landing that appeared in Garran's The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia

Date: c1886

Artist: Macleod, William 

Publisher: Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co, Sydney

Paper Size: 150 x 200mm

Condition: good

Technique: Wood Engraving

Price: $120

Description: Wood Engraving with later hand colouring

Provenance:

Commemorates the first landing of Tasman on Lagoon Bay Beach in December 1642

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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