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Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, Colonial Sydney’s Finest Natural History Painters (2019)

Finney, Vanessa (Author)

NewSouth Books

ISBN: 9781742235806

Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 220
Language: English

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Entomology Butterflies Science and art Great Britain, colonies Painters and painting Natural history 19th century Sydney (Australia)

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, 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.

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Review R. B. Williams (2020) Review of "Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, Colonial Sydney’s Finest Natural History Painters". Archives of Natural History (pp. 206-207). unapi

Review Carol Freeman (2020) Review of "Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, Colonial Sydney’s Finest Natural History Painters". Historical Records of Australian Science (pp. 65-66). unapi

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