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A view over settler colonialism: Malcolm Traill, ‘A grand colonial vista – with a few twists: Dale’s Panorama and its accompanying pamphlet’, Australian Garden History, 37, 1, 2025, pp. 14-19

24Jul25

Excerpt: Early colonial artwork in Australia can tell us a lot about landscape, botany and colonial attitudes. This is very much the case with this painting of King George’s Sound (now Albany) in Western Australia, informally known as the Dale Panorama. So, what is the background to this huge work, almost 3 m in length, and why was it painted? Who was Robert Dale and what became of him?

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