Transformations : Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney's finest natural history painters / Vane...
Transformations : Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney's finest natural history painters / Vane...
Transformations : Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney's finest natural history painters / Vanessa Finney.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2018.
Alternative title
Call Numbers
HQ 2019/1355
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MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
219 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2018.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2018.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Australian
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Scope and Contents
Summary
The fascinating story of the Scott sisters, who transformed nature into art in their extraordinary paintings of butterflies and moths, is told here for the first time. With their collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott entered the masculine worlds of science and art and became two of nineteenth-century Australia's mos...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Transformations : Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney's finest natural history painters / Vanessa Finney.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed 2019.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
HQ 2019/1355
Record Identifier
74VKV0jeE5kA
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV0jeE5kA
Other Identifiers
ISBN
1742235808
9781742235806 hardback
DDC
759.994
MMS ID
991024228107102626
