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Published by the National Library of Australia. George Raper was a midshipman on the Sirius of the First Fleet, whose talent and opportunity combined to produce what is now one of the National Library of Australia's most treasured collections, the Ducie Collection of First Fleet Art. Raper's ability to observe and depict the captivating beauty of Australian birds and plants was heightened by his youthful enthusiasm for the novelty of what he witnessed. This enchanting telling of Raper's brief life presents a new dimension to our understanding of the First Fleet experience and the life of a junior officer in the British Navy. The book also tells the story of how Raper's watercolours were only discovered in 2004 during a routine estate valuation in England, how they were attributed to Raper, and how being in storage for years had left their colours so vibrant. Containing full-colour illustrations of the complete Ducie Collection, this volume gives substance to the previously shadowy figure of Raper: a young man whose adventurous spirit and extraordinary insight into the natural world bequeathed to Australia through his paintings, a superlative legacy.
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FIRST FLEET ARTIST. George Raper's Birds & Plants of Australia.
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FIRST FLEET ARTIST: George Raper's Birds & Plants of Australia
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National Library of Australia. Canberra. ., 2009
ISBN 10: 0642276811
ISBN 13: 9780642276810
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1st Ed. Foreword by Jan Fullerton. VIII, 146 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, 16 maps or plans, 57 colour illustrations and 77 plates in colour (8 headpieces and 69 in the portfolio). Title page: "Fringe Lily" (Thysanotus Tuberosus). Pictorial boards with a hint of fading around edges, otherwise fine. 29 x 24. Seller Inventory # 77440
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