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The Blue Mountains offered ‘a serious kind of
beauty’ to define the essential features of the
Australian landscape. Katoomba Falls, the Grose
Valley, Mount Victoria, Govetts Leap and Mount
Wilson—all Blue Mountains sites—featured in the
original Queen’s album. These wild and sublime
landscapes were popular in the late-19th Century
viewer market as people sought a sense of relief
from their increasingly urban lives. As train travel
allowed people to visit such destinations, relief
became reality.
Mount Victoria
c. 1880
Glass plate negative
NSW State Archives
NRS 4481 SH404
(right)
Valley of the Grose
1875
Black and white photograph
State Library of NSW
X981/3
