The Challicum Sketch Book, 1842-53 and Supplementary Paintings by Duncan Elphinstone Cooper: Reproduced from the Originals Held by the National...

The Challicum Sketch Book, 1842-53 and Supplementary Paintings by Duncan Elphinstone Cooper: Reproduced from the Originals Held by the National...
ISBN-10
0642104107
ISBN-13
9780642104106
Category
Challicum (Qld.) in art
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
1987
Publisher
National Library Australia
Author
Duncan Elphinstone Cooper

Description

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.