Published in conjunction with the ‘The early years’ part of the exhibition Out of the west: art of Western Australia from the national collection 8 July 2011 – 1 April 2012, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Artists exhibited: William B. Benson, Edward Fox Angelo, James Peele, James Ashton, Florence Fuller, Kathleen O’Connor, James WR Linton, Henry Prinsep, John Barker, René Collot d’Herbois, WJ Higgins, Frances Bussell, Thomas Turner, Louisa Clifton, Rachel Ffarington, Philip Chauncy, Edmund DuCane, Edmund Henderson, Thomas Browne, T Rands, Herbert Gibbs, George WR Bourne, FM Williams, John Campbell, AB Webb, Jacobus van der Schley, John Sykes, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, William Westall, J. Alphonse Pellion, Jacques Arago, Adrien Taunay, Philip Parker King, Robert Seymour, A. Sharpshooter, S. Stoutshanks, Robert Dales, Jean Gabriel Prétre, Louise de Sainson, Horace Samson, WA Sanford, Guglielmo Ewing, Edmund N. Russell, Stephen Göczel, Henri van Raalte, George Pitt Morison, Edith Trethowan, Beatrice Darbyshire, Sanford Duryea, Greenham and Evans, AB Kaiser, August Knapp, Helen Creeth, May Creeth, Flora Landells, Rosenthal, Aronson & Co., Donovan & Overland, George Richard Addis, Adolph Otto Kopp, Thomas Scanlan, JW Dunkerton, Levinson and Sons, James AB Linton, Robert Heppingstone, Joseph Hamblin and Hookam Chan.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 50).