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Transformations : Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney's finest natural history painters / Vanessa Finney.

Transformations : Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney's finest natural history painters / Vanessa Finney.
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ISBN 9781742235806
1742235808
Author Finney, Vanessa (author.)
Title Transformations : Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney's finest natural history painters / Vanessa Finney.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2018.
Description 219 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
Summary The fascinating story of the Scott sisters, who transformed nature into art in their extraordinary paintings of butterflies and moths, is told here for the first time. With their collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott entered the masculine worlds of science and art and became two of nineteenth-century Australia's most prominent natural history painters. Transformations tells the complete story of the Scott sisters for the first time - their early lives in colonial Sydney, their training as naturalists and artists on the isolated Ash Island in the Hunter River near Newcastle, and their professional triumphs. This is a rare pictorial record of two talented and determined women who transformed nature into art in their extraordinary paintings of Australian butterflies and moths.
Subjects Scott, A. W.(Alexander Walker),1800-1883
Scott, Harriet, -- 1830-1907
Forde, Helena, -- 1832-1910
Butterflies in art
Moths in art
Natural history illustrators -- Australia
Naturalists -- Australia -- Biography
Zoological illustration -- Australia
Drawing, Australian -- 19th century
Lepidoptera -- Australia -- Pictorial works
Butterflies -- Australia -- Pictorial works
Moths -- Australia -- Pictorial works
Artists -- Australia -- Biography
Natural history illustration -- Australia
Ash Island (N.S.W.) -- History
Call number 2018.497
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