Historical information

A book of photographs taken by Nicholas John Caire of places and scenery throughout Victoria.

Significance

A book of photographs taken by Nicholas John Caire of places and scenery throughout Victoria.
Photographs by Nicholas John Caire are among the most widely published late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australian photographs. Between 1875 and 1905 Nicholas Caire travelled the Victorian countryside, looking to capture the scenery for the commercial market. His artistic sensitivity created images which earned him popular acceptance during his lifetime and an enduring place as one of Australia's finest landscape photographers.

Physical description

Hardcover. Front cover photograph-Fairy Scene at the Landslip, Blacks' Spur c1878-9; taken by Nicholas John Caire.

Inscriptions & markings

For Jane and Clare