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C1846
Klemsic. A Village of German Settlers Near Adelaid…
The largest c.19th hand coloured lithograph of present day Klemzig depicting the early South Australian settlement established by German Lutheran migrants in the late 1830s. The view represents one of the earliest organised European village communities in the colony, set … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Klemsic. A Village of German Settlers Near Adelaide.
Date:
C1846
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Lithograph with original hand colouring and gum Arabic highlights.
Image Size:
320mm
x 235mm
Paper Size:
543mm
x 363mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1846
Description:
The largest c.19th hand coloured lithograph of present day Klemzig depicting the early South Australian settlement established by German Lutheran migrants in the late 1830s.
The view represents one of the earliest organised European village communities in the colony, set within a lightly wooded riverine landscape characteristic of the district near the River Torrens, north-east of Adelaide. Modest dwellings, cultivated plots, and agricultural activity convey the settlers’ transition from arrival to productive rural life. Klemzig was named after the former home town of many of the emigrants, who had left Prussia to escape religious persecution and to practise their Lutheran faith freely. The first group of twenty-one settlers reached South Australia aboard the ship Bengalee on 18 November 1838, followed shortly after by the main body on the Prince George. Their arrival marked the beginning of a significant German cultural presence in the colony, particularly in agriculture, education, and church life.
From George French Angas’s, South Australia Illustrated.
References:
Gill, T. Bibliography of South Australia. Adelaide. (1886) 1976 : p.16
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney, 1987 : P.309-316
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : Volume IV, 4457
Tregenza, J. George French Angas. Artist, Traveller and Naturalist 1822-1886. Adelaide 1980
Abbey, J.R. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. London 1972: II, 577
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790 to 1860. Folkstone 1973 : 62
Colas, R. Bibliographie generale du Costume et de la Mode. Paris 1933 : 133
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 1842283
State Library South Australia: 994.2T A581 d
National Gallery Australia: ACCESSION NUMBER 66.7.3.4
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1070959
University Library Melbourne: 919.42302 ANGA
National Gallery Victoria: Accession Number2011.338
State Library Victoria: RARELTEF 919.42 AN4S
George French Angas (1822 - 1886)
Angas was a painter, lithographer, engraver and naturalist, fourth child and eldest son of George Fife Angas, a merchant and banker. As the eldest son he was expected to join his father's firm, but some months in a London counting house proved a disillusioning experience. In 1841 he took art lessons for four months from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a natural history painter and lithographer, and armed with this instruction set out to see the world. He began in the Mediterranean publishing, A Ramble in Malta and Sicily in the Autumn of 1841.......Illustrated with Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Drawn on the Stone by the Author, the following year. Angas's father had established the South Australian Company in 1836 and had large areas of land as well as banking interests in the province. George French sailed for South Australia in 1843 in the Augustus, arriving in Adelaide on 1st January 1844. Within days he had joined an exploring party selecting runs for the South Australia Company. They traveled through the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Murray River and down to Lake Coorong and Angas sketched views of the countryside, native animals and the customs and dwellings of the Narrinyerri people. Later he drew scenes on his father's land - 28,000 acres in the Barossa Valley - and accompanied George Grey's expedition to the then unknown south-east as unofficial artist. In July 1844 Angas visited New Zealand. Guided by two Maoris, he traveled on foot and by canoe through both islands, painting portraits of Maoris and views. Angas's father died in 1879, leaving a vast estate from which George French received only a annuity of 1000 pounds. In 1884 he went to Dominica on a collecting expedition, finding shells, moths, butterflies and birds. Dogged by rheumatism and neuralgia during his last years, Angas died in London on 4 October 1886.
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James William Giles (1801 - 1870)
Giles was a painter and lithographer born in Glasgow , the son of a designer at the local calico. The family moved to Aberdeen around 1805 where his father worked in a printing factory at Aberdeen and was an artist of some repute. His father's early death threw his son at an early age upon his own resources and at 13 he maintained himself, his mother and sister by painting, and before he was 20 was teaching private classes in Aberdeen. At 21 he married a widow Clementina Farquharson. He then became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy and elected to the council of the Spalding Club. He first exhibited at the "Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland", and in 1829 became an academician of the Royal Scottish Academy, and contributed numerous works to its exhibitions from that time until near the close of his career. He also exhibited frequently at the British Institution in London, and occasionally at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists.
