Book review: A Survey of the Bateman Collection, Scott Carlin

Article from Vol 48 no 2, May 2026

Book review: A Survey of the Bateman Collection, Scott Carlin

Abstract:

William Petsalis and JamesBateman’s A Survey of the Bateman Collection is a most welcome survey of more than 200 pieces from one of the most impressive collections of Australian colonial furniture and folk art ever assembled, the successor to the dispersed collections of Lord McAlpine and the late Caroline Simpson. Certain pieces will be known to members from their publication in Australiana and in Fahy & Simpson’s Australian Furniture Pictorial History and Dictionary 1788–1938 (1998).

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