The Digital Philatelist

This is the second stamp issue in the Gallery Series. The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) opened its doors to the public in October 1982, and has since developed and provided access to an outstanding national collection of more than 160,000 works across Australian art, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander…

View More Australia Philately: 2013 National Gallery of Australia: Landscapes

View More Australia Philately: 2013 Australia Stamp Bulletin No.321 (March-April)

Russian-born artist Nicholas Chevalier travelled throughout the south-east of the country in search of dramatic mountain ranges and seascapes for his subject matter. In Studley Park at sunrise Chevalier shows the Yarra River flanked by tall trees and open bushland. Details Series: 2013 National Gallery of Australia: Landscapes Subject: Nicholas…

View More Australia Philately: 2013 National Gallery of Australia: Landscapes – 60c Nicholas Chevalier – Studley Park at sunrise 1861 (detail)

View More Australia Philately: 2012 Australia Stamp Bulletin No.317 (August)

Details Series: 2012 Inland Explorers Designer: Craig McGill Product Designer: Sonia Young, Australia Post Design Studio Printer: McKellar Renown Press: Process: Lithography Colours: Paper: Tullis Russell Watermark: None Perf: 13.86 x 14.6  (comb) Sheet: 50 stamps Quantity:

View More Australia Philately: 2012 Inland Explorers – $3.60 Miniature Sheet

Some 50 years later, Stuart became the fi rst European to make the south–north return crossing of Australia. He left South Australia with his nine companions in October 1861, on his third attempt to cross the continent, reaching the coast at Van Diemen Gulf on 24 July 1862. Stuart raised…

View More Australia Philately: 2012 Inland Explorers – $1.20 Overland Crossing 1861-1862

No artist accompanied either expedition, so the source engravings on which the stamp scenes are based were created years later. Emile Ulm’s Blue Mountain Pioneers was published in the 1880 Christmas supplement of the Sydney Mail, and is presumably his impression of the party reaching the western-most point of its…

View More Australia Philately: 2012 Inland Explorers – 60c Blue Mountains Crossing 1813

This stamp issue commemorates two anniversaries: in 2012 it is 150 years since John McDouall Stuart returned from his overland crossing of Australia; and in 2013 it will be 200 years since Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth crossed the Blue Mountains. In 1813, Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth…

View More Australia Philately: 2012 Inland Explorers