Art, Symbol & Imagination
Lessons in the Forest
A European visitor holds a small sphere before a group of Indigenous figures in a wooded shelter. Gestures and converging gazes concentrate attention on his demonstration. The annual lists the plate as Lessons in the Forest and presents the encounter through a nineteenth-century colonial narrative of scientific instruction.
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Illustrator not identified. "Lessons in the Forest" [editorial title]. In The Odd-Fellows' Offering for 1852, Members of the Order, their wives and sisters. 1852 edition, 1852, Edward Walker. Source scan leaf 158. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0233-0158
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Illustrator not identified. Lessons in the Forest. The Odd-Fellows' Offering for 1852. Scan leaf 158. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0233-0158