Printed images in colonial Australia 1801-1901 / Roger Butler.

Collection type	Library
Author	Butler, Roger, 1948-; National Gallery of Australia.;
Call Number	ART
Document type	Monograph
Year	2007.
Pagination	xvii, 294 p. : col. ill., plates ; 30 cm.
Publisher	National Gallery of Australia,
Note	Includes index. Bibliography: p. 280 - 284. From 30 March to 3 June 2007 the Natiional Gallery of Australia will hold an exhibition titled The Story of Australian Printmaking 1801- 2005. The exhibition will feature works from 1801 to the present and will include illustrated books, posters, artists' prints and billboard sized political posters. Tertiary/Undergraduate. General. Geographic coverage: Australia.
Place made	Canberra

Abstract

Printmaking in New South Wales before 1822. A wide perspective; Lewin: In the service of science; Forgeries and promissory notes; The first views: Absalom West's publications; Forgeries and banknotes; The Wallis publication -- Artisans and artists. The do minance of copperplate engraving; Images printed with text; The chapbook style in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and New South Wales; Lithographs: the first Twenty-five years (1825-50) -- Printed images for all. Lithography Gold rush consolidation; Printin g in colour; Viewbooks; Lithography and science; Gift books by women artists; Chromo-lithographs; Sporting prints; The illustrated press; The rise and demise of wood-engraving; Pictorial supplements and the plight of the wood-engravers; The fine art of wo od-engraving; Picturesque Atlas of Australasia; Printmaking and the application of photography.