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C1886
A Horse Bazaar, Bourke Street.
Scarce c.19th hand coloured engraving of one of the horse bazaars in Bourke Street in the 1880’s. One of the earliest was Kirks Bazaar established in 1840 and soon became the most well known of Melbourne’s horse bazaars. Several other … Read Full Description
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S/N: PAA-SP-HORSE-2005–218677
(C061)
Categories: Equestrian, Victoria – Melbourne, SPORTS, AUSTRALIA, PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHS, TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEWS
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Full Title:
A Horse Bazaar, Bourke Street.
Date:
C1886
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
115mm
x 167mm
Paper Size:
139mm
x 193mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1886
Description:
Scarce c.19th hand coloured engraving of one of the horse bazaars in Bourke Street in the 1880’s.
One of the earliest was Kirks Bazaar established in 1840 and soon became the most well known of Melbourne’s horse bazaars. Several other bazaars were soon established in the surrounding Bourke Street West precinct, along with saddlers, farriers, haylofts and carriage makers.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 9829g.
Hughes-d’Aeth, T. Paper Nation : The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australia. Melbourne 2001 :.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 1654251
National Gallery Australia: Legacy ID 34588
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1046852
Getty Museum Los Angeles: 1218593
State Library New South Wales: 74VvDRQZXzWd
State Library Victoria: CCF 919.4 G19
William Thomas Smedley (1858 - 1921)
Smedley was born in Pennsylvania , worked on a newspaper, then studied engraving and art in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He settled in New York in 1880. His first illustrations were for the series Picturesque Canada and in 1905 became a member of the National Academy of Design. Most of his art was illustrative but he also painted portraits and watercolours, receiving the Evans Prize of the American Water Color Society in 1890, and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
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