Transformations : Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney's finest natural history painters / Vanessa Finney.

By:

Finney, Vanessa

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Material type: Text

9781742235806 (hardback)

Other title:

Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney's finest natural history painters

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DDC classification:

591.994 23

Summary: 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 most prominent natural history painters. Transformations tells the complete story of the Scott sisters for the first time - their early lives in colonial Sydney, their training as naturalists and artists on the isolated Ash Island in the Hunter River near Newcastle, and their professional triumphs. This is a rare pictorial record of two talented and determined women who transformed nature into art in their extraordinary paintings of Australian butterflies and moths.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	State Botanical Collection	RBG	925.8 TRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		RBG00018401

"Published in association with the Australian Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Transformations : art of the Scott sisters" -- Colophon.

Includes bibliographical refereneces and index.

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 most prominent natural history painters. Transformations tells the complete story of the Scott sisters for the first time - their early lives in colonial Sydney, their training as naturalists and artists on the isolated Ash Island in the Hunter River near Newcastle, and their professional triumphs. This is a rare pictorial record of two talented and determined women who transformed nature into art in their extraordinary paintings of Australian butterflies and moths.