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The art of the First Fleet & other early Australian drawings

by Bernard Smith, Alwyne Wheeler

A collection of works by the artists aboard the 1788 First Fleet, who recorded their impressions of the Australian landscape, Indigenous peoples, and local flora and fauna.

Accession 19588 ISBN 0195548884 Publisher Oxford University Press
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