TOURS
Volunteer guides are available between 10 am and 4 pm daily. Free.
Group tours are also available on request. For further information please
contact Helen Tsogas (02) 6262 1634
TALKS
Travellers Art: The Journey
of a Lifetime
Exhibition introduction by curator Tim Fisher
Thursday 12 June, 12.30 pm
Friends Lounge, followed by Exhibition Gallery, Free
Bookings essential: (02) 6262 1122
Turning the Pages-
Exhibition curator Tim Fisher
Witness the process of page turning in the Travellers Art exhibition.
Featured items: Birds and Flowers of New South Wales Drawn on the Spot
in 1788, ’89 & ’90 [known as The Hunter Sketchbook],
by Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet; also The Lycett Album
with
its extraordinary watercolour drawings of Aborigines and Australian scenery
by Joseph Lycett.
Wednesday 25 June, 12.30 pm
Exhibition Gallery, Free
Turning the Pages-
Exhibition curator, Tim Fisher
Witness the process of page turning in the Travellers Art exhibition.
Featured items: Sketchbooks of the Pacific in the 1840s with Robert Marsh
Westmacott's Drawings of New Zealand 1840; J.H. Goldfinch's Drawings
of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and the South Seas 1842-1851; and
Charles-Claude Antiq's Original Drawings Taiti, Marquises, Morea, Valparaiso
1845-1847.
Wednesday 16 July, 12.30 pm
Exhibition Gallery, Free
Photography and the Traveller's Eye
Exhibition talk about Travellers Art by Helen Ennis, Senior
Lecturer, School of Art, ANU
Wednesday 30 July, 12.30 pm
Exhibition Gallery, Free
Friends Event-
Journey Through the Mind: Making the Exhibition
Tuesday 12 August, 12.30 pm
Exhibition Gallery
Admission by donation
Bookings essential: (02) 6262 1698, or email friends@nla.gov.au
Turning the Pages-
Exhibition curator, Tim Fisher
Witness the process of page turning in the Travellers Art exhibition.
Featured items: Sketchbook kept by Charles Whitmore Babbage when accompanying
his father B.H. Babbage on surveying expeditions, 1857-1862; Sir Whately
Eliot's Sketches in New Zealand and Other Places 1874; 'Gone Out to Australia',
the 1882 illustrated journal of H.G.H. Sandeman.
Wednesday 20 August, 12.30 pm
Exhibition Gallery, Free
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