Julian Ashton, “The Prospector”, 1889 (detail), oil on canvas on hardboard, Art Gallery of NSW, purchased 1889… National Library of Australia, March 12-July 11.
ORIGINAL drawings and paintings by the artists of “The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia” will be on show at the National Library of Australia’s next big exhibition, “A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas“, a staged partnership with the Art Gallery of NSW. “The Atlas”, published between 1886 and 1889, set out to document through illustrations, maps and text a settler-colonial view of Australia’s history, landscape and ways of life and became a catalyst for Australian impressionism. March 12-July 11, 9am to 5pm daily. Entry is free.