KERR, Joan (editor)

The Dictionary of Australian Artists. Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870

Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Quarto, xxii, 899 pages with hundreds of illustrations.

Quarter contrasting papered boards; bottom edge a little shelf-marked; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine.

Informative biographies of 2500 artists - 'every known painter, sketcher, printmaker and photographer who worked in Australia before 1870'; nearly thirty years on, it is still an important reference work.

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