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Cultured colonists : George Alexander Gilbert and his family, settlers in Port Phillip / Margaret Bowman.

By:

Bowman, Margaret [author.]

Publication details: North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Pub, 2014.Description: xii, 125 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cmISBN:

9781925003642
1925003647

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DDC classification:

994.502 23

LOC classification:

DU82

Summary: "George Alexander Gilbert arrived in Melbourne in 1841 just as tentative steps were being taken to enrich the cultural life of the new settlement. As a teacher, creative artist and the founder of the city's first art school he was to do much to advance the visual arts. Margaret Bowman draws on the deep resources of the State Library of Victoria to explore his life and reproduce his art." - Back cover

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item reserves
Book	Melbourne Athenaeum Library	Biography	994.502 BOW	Available		057466

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Includes bibiliographical references: pages 108-125.

"George Alexander Gilbert arrived in Melbourne in 1841 just as tentative steps were being taken to enrich the cultural life of the new settlement. As a teacher, creative artist and the founder of the city's first art school he was to do much to advance the visual arts. Margaret Bowman draws on the deep resources of the State Library of Victoria to explore his life and reproduce his art." - Back cover

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