THE LYCETT ALBUM: Drawings of Aborigines and Australian scenery

National Library of Australia 1st edition 1990 hardcover in original dust wrapper and with 88 pages.

Definitive text by Jeanette Hoorn.

Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white with full-page colour plates. 

Joseph Lycett was one of the few European artists to document Australia Aboriginal life in the early colonial period. These pictures collectively present a detailed documentary record of Aboriginal land use, of their defence of their land against Europeans as well as the ceremonies surrounding every day life in Aboriginal communities.

A fantastic title in mint condition.

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