Description
SECONDHAND BOOK
The nineteenth century squatter and painter Duncan Elphinstone Cooper spent about thirteen years of his life in the Western District of Victoria where he painted the fifty-four pictures presented in this volume. Most of these are from Cooper’s The Challicum Sketch Book, now a treasured part of the collections of the National Library of Australia; the paintings deal almost exclusively with the grazing property of that name – from tent to house and beyond.
Philip L. Brown has been painstaking in delving into Cooper’s little-known background and has produced an illuminating account of his life and achievements. Of particular interest are Brown’s descriptions of the social and farming life of the times. His commentaries on the paintings reproduced here are both authoritative and informative. His scholarship leaves no doubt that Cooper’s modesty about his artistic ability was misplaced, and that his achievements as a colonial painter are of significant value to the nation.
Specifications:
Condition: Good – general wear to dustjacket, fading to spine.
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Year: 1987
Format: Hardback, with dustjacket
Pages: 160pp
ISBN: 0642104107
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