3/28/2024 0 Comments Picturesque europe digital library![]() Should you wish to view the object in person at the Library you can click on, in the Library. As this is digitised the online option is available to us. If we scroll down we can see that there are some options for viewing the work at the bottom, online, in the library and order a copy. Here it shows more details about the work including a description and some notes. We can click on the title and we’ll get a catalogue entry. If it has a thumbnail here that usually means it’s digitised. The one we want is at the top, you can see that it’s showing as a book and as online. ![]() So if we do a specific search for Picturesque Atlas of Australasia we will see the results here. Once you're there you can find the catalogue here. A quick Google search of NLA will get you there or you can go straight to. The first step in locating anything in our collection is to find your way to our webpage and to the catalogue. It's one thing for me to tell you about the Picturesque Atlas, while I have a copy here with me but it’s going to be more useful for you if I show you how you can access this and other fantastic resources online for free. Through its text, maps and above all its 800 steel and wood-engraved illustrations the Atlas enshrined a settler colonial view of white Australia’s history, achievements and prospects which was to have a profound impact on the subsequent evolution of Australian art being a catalyst for the Australian impressionist movement. Published in 42 separate instalments between 18 the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia set out to imagine our country as it was and is. The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s first nations peoples, the first Australians, as the traditional owners and custodians of this land and gives respect to the elders past and present and through them to all Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. However the appreciation and admiration of the sweeping vistas and natural beauty of this continent has long pre-dated European artists with their sketchbooks. The images and scenes depicted in these volumes are those that captivated European arrivals to this land and who felt driven to capture the natural world and built world around them to share with the world. The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia is a set in three volumes of over 800 engravings depicting Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific landscapes in the late 1800s. In this video I’ll be taking a look at the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and showing you how you can explore this interesting book and how you can find other rare books in our collection online for free. My name’s Ben Pratten and I’m the Program Manager, Education here at the National Library of Australia.
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