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Colleen McCullough's original pencil portraits and hand-drawn and printed maps from the historical fiction series, The Masters of Rome
(published between 1990-2007)
comprising 85 pencil portraits depicting figures from Roman history, together with 86 hand-drawn and photographic contact-printed maps
? All works copyright Estate of Colleen McCullough
OTHER NOTES
Widely regarded as her life's work, over a period of twenty years, Colleen McCullough undertook scrupulous research for what would become
The Masters of Rome series of seven historical fiction novels. Focusing on the period of the late Roman Republic from 110BC to 27BC, she faithfully recreated the world which formed the background to the key historical events of the late Roman Republic and in so doing, put forward hypotheses as to why certain events took place. McCullough viewed the project as form of redress for what she saw as the shortcomings of the teaching of Classical history at the time: "I wanted to be so soaked in Caesar's world that I felt more at home in it than I did in my own world." (1). Such was the regard for the quality of McCullough's research that in 1993 she was awarded a Doctor of Letters degree by Macquarie University, in Sydney. The level of detail of McCullough's research also encompassed detailed portraits, executed in pencil, depicting key personages from Roman history, based on photographs of ancient portrait busts. These she complemented with hand-drawn maps, showing land masses with period-correct names in order to further contextualise the written works. These are those surviving original works.
(1) McCullough, Colleen,
Colleen McCullough: Life Without the Boring Bits, Harper Collins, Sydney, 2011, p. 188