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C1886
Valley Lake, Mount Gambier.
Artist:
Scarce c.19th engraving of Valley, Mount Gambier. From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher. Collections: National Library Australia: Bib ID 914558 State Library New South Wales: REF1/MAV/FM4/9236-9239 State Library Victoria: PCINF AS 06-09-73 P.104
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Full Title:
Valley Lake, Mount Gambier.
Date:
C1886
Artist:
Engraver:
Horace Baker
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
75mm
x 110mm
Paper Size:
105mm
x 130mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1886
Description:
Scarce c.19th engraving of Valley, Mount Gambier.
From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 914558
State Library New South Wales: REF1/MAV/FM4/9236-9239
State Library Victoria: PCINF AS 06-09-73 P.104
Frederic B. Schell (1838 - 1900)
Schell was an American employed as the senior artist on the most ambitious colonial publication ever attempetd, The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia. He arrived in Sydney with two other American artists, W.T. Smedley and W. C. Fitler, plus a number of engravers including Horace Baker. When Phil May returned to England in 1888 Schell accompanied him. The Grafton Gallery 'Exhibition of Australian Art in London’ 1898 included F.B. Schell, cat.250, 'Junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, N.S.W.’, cat.254, 'Hamilton Reach, Brisbane’, cat. 255, 'Sydney Harbour, N.S.W.’, lent by the Trustees of Sydney Gallery. He is represented in a number of institutional collections.
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