Join us to welcome the Library's newest exhibition with a preview before it opens to the public.

Original drawings and paintings by the artists of The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia will be on show at the National Library in A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas, open from Friday 12 March to Sunday 11 July 2021.

The Atlas, published in supplements 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. It was also a catalyst for the art movement that followed, now known as Australian impressionism.

The event will include a book signing with author and curator of the exhibition, Dr Gary Werskey.

A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas is presented in partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales and will be open from Friday 12 March until Sunday 11 July 2021.

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