Pictures Resource Guide, page 2

Print resources

The following items are a selection of key printed materials available in the Library. Some of these items may be on the shelves. Others may need to be requested through our online catalogue, retrieved from storage and delivered to the book collection point in the Information Centre.

Art reference

Ambrus, Caroline. The Ladies' picture show : sources on a century of Australian women artists
AR 016.75994 AmIL (1984)
Bibliography of women artists born before 1915

Australian art auction records, [Vol. 1] (1973/75)-
AR 706.5 C84A (1975- )
Useful reference source covering all major art auctions in Australia and New Zealand. Provides prices fetched at auction.

Barry, Sandie. Australians behind the camera : directory of early Australian photographers, 1841 to 1945
LTR 770.994 B27A (2002)
Directory of Australian photographers from 1841-1945.

Cook, David Picture postcards in Australia 1898-1920
SLT 741.6830994 C77P (1986)
Guide to postcard collecting. 

Davies, Alan. The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900
LTF 770.994 D28M (1985)
Directory of Australian photographers from 1841-1900.

Frost, Lenore Dating family photos 1850-1920
LTR 778.926 F92D (1991)
Guide to help date nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs.

Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955
AR 709.94 H42K (1995)
Dictionary of women artists to 1955.

Kerr, Joan, ed. The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870
LTR & AR 709.9403 D56K (1992)
Provides reference to every known painter, sketcher, printmaker and photographer who worked in Australia before 1870.

McCulloch, Alan The encyclopedia of Australian art
AR 709.9403 M13E (1994)
A major reference work on Australian art and artists from 1770-1994.

Richards, Maurice The encyclopedia of ephemera
AF 769.503 R53E (2000)
An illustrated guide to ephemera for the collector, curator and historian.

Sayers, Andrew. Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century
AO & LT 704.039915 S99A (1994)
Covers the work of important Aboriginal artists.

Collection specific

Downer, Christine Victorian vision, 1834 onwards: images and records from the National Gallery of Victoria and the State Library of Victoria
SLTF 709.945 D75V (1985)
Includes essays covering the development of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Pictures collections. 

Galbally, Ann  The First collections : the Public Library and the National Gallery of Victoria in the 1850's and the 1860's : University Gallery, the University of Melbourne Museum of Art 14 May - 15 July 1992
A & SLT 708.99451 F51G (1992)
History of collecting by the NGV and State Library of Victoria.

Glover, Anne Victorian treasures from the La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria
LTF & A 708.99451 G51V (1980)
A pictorial work featuring highlights of Victorian material held in the Picture Collection, Australian Manuscripts Collection and Map Collection.