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- Title
Indigeneity and classical reception in The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay.
- Authors
Johnson, Marguerite
- Abstract
This article examines six plates depicting Indigenous peoples from the monograph entitled, The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (1789). It is the first piece of scholarship to study the specific artwork separately (as opposed to constituents in broader surveys), and provides an in-depth background to the origins of the plates, their design history, manufacture, contextual placement within the book, and public reception. The primary means by which the plates are viewed is based on the tenets of Classical Reception in order to make sense of the artistic decision to cast the Indigenous peoples of Australia and Micronesia as either Arcadian rustics or Greek sculptures.
- Subjects
VOYAGE of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (Book); PLATES (Tableware); PLATES (Tableware) -- Design &; construction; MANUFACTURING processes; CLASSICAL literature; HISTORY
- Publication
Classical Receptions Journal, 2014, Vol 6, Issue 3, p402
- ISSN
1759-5134
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/crj/clt027