Bibliograph

Illustrating the Antipodes, George French Angas in Australia & New Zealand, 1844-1845, Philip Jones

Type

Label

Illustrating the Antipodes, George French Angas in Australia & New Zealand, 1844-1845, Philip Jones

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

resource.governmentPublication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Illustrating the Antipodes

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Philip Jones

Sub title

George French Angas in Australia & New Zealand, 1844-1845

Summary

George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute detail of plant and people, objects and landscapes, and rapidly assembled a portfolio or 250 fine watercolours. In this illustrated volume, Philip Jones has used Angas' sketches, watercolours, lithographs and journal accounts to retrace his Antipodean journeys in vivid detail. Set in the context of his time, Angas emerges both as a brilliant artist and as a flawed Romantic idealist, rebelling against his father's mercantilism while entirely reliant upon the colonial project enabling him to depict Indigenous peoples and their way of life

Target audience

adult

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