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Australian National Gallery and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1986. 4to, 270pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Melbourne; Australian National Gallery/ Oxford University Press; 1986. First Edition; Square Post 4to; pp. xviii, 270; 58 coloured illustrations, 118 b/w. illustrations, original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, signed and dated by author, fine copy. The object of the catalogue is to provide a comprehensive analysis of Australian colonial painting (1820s to mid-1880s) held in the Australian National Gallery. The result is an important book that evokes for lay and professional reader alike the lively artistic climate that prevailed during the first hundred years of colonial settlement.