Cabbage Trees near the Shoalhaven River, N.S.W., 1860 / Eugene von Guerard [Framed]

Cabbage Trees near the Shoalhaven River, N.S.W., 1860 / Eugene von Guerard [unframed]

Cabbage Trees near the Shoalhaven River, N.S.W., 1860 / Eugene von Guerard

This painting depicts a view of the forest at Brandy and Water Creek, with Mount Kembla in the left-hand corner. In it, von Guerard has provided a pictorial documentary of the botanical species of the area, as they were at that time, as well as evoking the density and lushness of the untouched forest. Today the painting has become important historical evidence of the original state of vegetation and appearance. When later images are compared with it, the effects of environmental change to this once extraordinary place are dramatically registered. By the late 19th century, most of the forest had been cleared and the giant 80-foot cabbage tree palms, eucalypts and ancient fig trees had been felled as coal mines and farming in the area were developed. Source: notes on ML file

Cabbage Trees near the Shoalhaven River, N.S.W., 1860 / Eugene von Guerard [Framed]

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