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Map, New Zealand, General Map of the Middle Island, Showing Chatham Island c1886
Map, New Zealand, General Map of the Middle Island, Showing Chatham Island c1886
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Date: c1886
Artist: unknown
Engraver: unknown
Publisher: Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company Ltd, Sydney and Melbourne
Paper size: 630 x 430mm
Image Size: 610 x 370mm
Condition: Good
Technique: Printed in colour
Price: $75
Description:
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.
To read about The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia click here.
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