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A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas at the National Library of Australia

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

If you go to Canberra to see the NGA’s exhibition Botticelli to Van Gogh and are mildly disappointed, your journey need not have been wasted.

Go up the road to the National Library of Australia to view the current show there: A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas. It’s an absolute delight! Not many of us have heard of the Picturesque Atlas but happily the combined forces of the National Library and the Art Gallery of NSW have brought this seminal publication to life in a small, beautifully presented exhibition.

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