George French Angas, Artist Traveller: Illustrating the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844–1845

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1 George Fife Angas' investment in South Australia had a vehement spiritual and reformist element: he was a pious and influential adherent of the Dissenters, an association committed to social and political reform, whose exertions were instrumental in founding the colony, envisaged as a place of civil and religious liberty with free settlers living in harmony with Indigenous inhabitants.

2 Philip Jones, Illustrating the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844–1845 (Canberra: National Library of Australia & South Australian Museum, 2021). Exhibition at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2021–30 January 2022; South Australian Museum, 5 March–8 May 2022. John Tregenza, George French Angas: Artist, Traveller and Naturalist 1822–1886 (Adelaide: Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1980).

3 Andrew Sayers, Drawing in Australia: Drawings, Watercolours, Pastels and Collages from the 1770s to the 1980s (Melbourne: Australian National Gallery/Oxford University Press, 1989), 58.