Nicholas Chevalier - An Artist's Journey through Canterbury in 1866

The Robert McDougall Art Gallery 1992 Clipped price from title page. Shelf wear at extremities.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery which gathered together the drawings and painings depicting Chevalier's journey through Canterbury for the first time in 125 years. Chevalier undertook a journey into the only lightly peopled back country, recording what he encountered in vigorous, observant sketches and watercolours. His paintings described landscapes, bush and mountains of astonishing singularity and beauty...