The Rex Nan Kivell Collection of Early New Zealand Pictures
The Rex Nan Kivell Collection of Early New Zealand Pictures

Author: Rex Nan Kivell

Publisher:

Published: 1953

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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"... The Rex Nan Kivell Exhibition of Early New Zealand Pictures is an important artistic occasion ... the average quality is surprisingly high, especially when one realises that so many of the artists were also primarily surveyors, engineers, soldiers, or politicians. There is another aspect to this particular exhibition -- the accurate, factual representation makes it of historical importance. The life of those early years in New Zealand is graphically displayed in these pictures. The artists made many studies of the Maoris [sic] and their customs. The first settlement, the growth of townships, and the changing landscape are portrayed over the years ... The entire Nan Kivell Collection covers not only New Zealand and the Pacific, but also Australia ..." -- Foreword.

Colouring Book
Colouring Book

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Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780642276346

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Explore the history, culture, plants and animals of Australia through 18 pages of illustrations based on items held in the collections of the National Library of Australia. The Colouring Book is both fun and educational; each illustration is accompanied by an easy-to-read caption. The illustrations are listed at the end of the book with a full-colour reproduction of each original work and detailed bibliographic information. Suitable for children aged three years and up, this book will entertain for hours.

Picturing Australia
Picturing Australia

Author: National Library of Australia

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0642276668

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Highlights from the Library's Pictures Collection - the stories behind some of our most interesting paintings.

Augustus Earle
Augustus Earle

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Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0859676315

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Augustus Earle (1793–1838) was born to travel and to paint. Living in the era before photography, Earle was one of the world’s most irrepressible travel artists. His paintings are valuable both as works of art and as documentary records of historic and ethnographic significance. This publication gives an overview of some of Earle’s most significant works held by the National Library of Australia.

Heaphy
Heaphy

Author: Iain Sharp

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 1775580857

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Richly illustrated with Charles Heaphy's remarkable paintings and drawings as well as photographs and maps from the period, this engaging work tells the story of Heaphy's life and his art. A draughtsman, explorer, surveyor, gold agent, geologist, soldier, war hero, politician, land commissioner, and judge—even by the versatile standards of Victorian pioneers, Charles Heaphy had an unusually varied career. His biography tells as much about his own life as it does of the settlement of New Zealand. From his earliest surviving watercolor of bird life in 1839 to his last-known sketch, drawn on the back of an envelope in 1879, Charles Heaphy's art represents a remarkable visual diary of life as a settler in New Zealand.