Australia Illustrated

Goldfields, copper mines and dramatic scenery present the colonies in Australia Illustrated, the work issued by Virtue &...

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Goldfields, copper mines and dramatic scenery present the colonies in Australia Illustrated, the work issued by Virtue & Co. in the 1870s, with the prints here dating from around 1874. Edwin Booth wrote the descriptive account, and artists including John Skinner Prout and Nicholas Chevalier supplied the drawings for the views. The plates move from Tasmania's Break O'Day country to the Weatherboard Falls in the Blue Mountains and the mining landscape of Burra Burra, and a Queensland goldfield scene adds another picture of resource development. Maps of Queensland and settled South Australia set these subjects in their wider regions.

Goldfields, copper mines and dramatic scenery present the colonies in Australia Illustrated, the work issued by Virtue & Co. in the 1870s, with the prints here dating from around 1874. Edwin Booth wrote the descriptive account, and artists including John Skinner Prout and Nicholas Chevalier supplied the drawings for the views. The plates move from Tasmania's Break O'Day country to the Weatherboard Falls in the Blue Mountains and the mining landscape of Burra Burra, and a Queensland goldfield scene adds another picture of resource development. Maps of Queensland and settled South Australia set these subjects in their wider regions.

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