C1886

Amateur Fossickers.-Holiday Time on the Diggings.

Artist:

Amandus Julius Fischer (1859 - 1948)

$A 195

Scarce colonial engraving of a scene on the diggings. From the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News. References: Gibbs & Shallard. Illustrated Sydney News. ISSN 2203-5397. Collections: State Library New South Wales: F8/39-40 State Library Victoria: PCINF SLVIC=1853-1872 National Library … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Amateur Fossickers.-Holiday Time on the Diggings.

Date:

C1886

Artist:

Amandus Julius Fischer (1859 - 1948)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

327mm

x 223mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1886

Description:

Scarce colonial engraving of a scene on the diggings.

From the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News.

References:
Gibbs & Shallard. Illustrated Sydney News. ISSN 2203-5397.

Collections:
State Library New South Wales: F8/39-40
State Library Victoria: PCINF SLVIC=1853-1872
National Library Australia: Bib ID 440095

Amandus Julius Fischer (1859 - 1948)

Australian artist who began his art studies in Sydney before proceeding to the Westminster School of art in London, and the Académie Julian and the Atelier Colarossi in Paris. From 1883 he exhibited landscapes and figure studies with the New South Wales Society of Artists; he worked for the staff artist for the Illustrated Sydney News, the Bulletin and the Brisbane Boomerang. He is best known for illustrating Arthur H Davis’s (Steele Rudd’s) enormously popular book On Our Selection (1899) and its sequel, Stocking Our Selection. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.

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