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Transformations

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

by Vanessa Finney
Hardback
Publication Date: 03/12/2018

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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 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.

ISBN:
9781742235806
9781742235806
Category:
History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
03-12-2018
Publisher:
NewSouth Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
220
Dimensions (mm):
280x210mm
Vanessa Finney

Vanessa Finney is a curator, historian and archivist. At the Australian Museum she manages the country's oldest and largest natural history archives and rare books collection.

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