The Convict Artists

Hackforth-Jones, Jocelyn

Editore: The Macmillan Company of Australia Ltd., North Sydney NSW, Australia,, 1977

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Oblong quarto; hardcover; 96pp. Minor wear; owner's name to half-title page; faint spotting to the text block edges. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Many of the first European artists in Australia were convicts (the majority had been convicted of forgery) - inspired primitives or skilled artists working under patronage. They depicted the flora, fauna and topography of the new land and their services soon came to be in great demand by both the government and private individuals. Governor Macquarie was an active patron and encouraged a number of artists, including Eyre, Lycett and Read. During the first half century of settlement - when they were the only coherent group of artists to record the appearance, growth and progress of the two colonies of Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales - a developing sophistication in approach can be traced.

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• Titolo: The Convict Artists
• Editore: The Macmillan Company of Australia Ltd., North Sydney NSW, Australia,
• Data di pubblicazione: 1977