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Description: Miss Adelaide Ironside, Australian artist b. 17 November 1831 d.1867 Also known as Adelaide Eliza Scott Ironside, Adelaide Ironside was the first Australian artist to leave home to advance her career in Europe, encouraged by the influential Australian colonist, Dr. John Dunmore Lang. Her mature work earned her an audience with Pope Pius IX and the admiration of both John Ruskin and the Prince of Wales. However after her early death in Rome she was not appreciated in her home country and it took many years for her work to enter public collections. A weekly & monthly Sydney journal of local and international news and events, published from 1870 to 1919 Published by Frank & Christopher Bennett in Sydney. Annual collection in half leather binding. About 800 pages per annual volume, 46cm x 30cm.
Title: Adelaide Ironside
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Author: C. Winters (per image attribution)
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