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C1881
American Trotters at Randwick.
Artist:
Rare engraving of the first exhibition of Amercian Trotters in Australia. Exerpt from the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News; ‘On Saturday afternoon the Randwick racecourse presented a more than usually busy appearance, which was accounted for by the … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
American Trotters at Randwick.
Date:
C1881
Artist:
Condition:
Two vertical creases, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
230mm
x 165mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1881
Description:
Rare engraving of the first exhibition of Amercian Trotters in Australia.
Exerpt from the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News;
‘On Saturday afternoon the Randwick racecourse presented a more than usually busy appearance, which was accounted for by the fact that an exhibition of the American trotting horses lately imported by Dr. Weir, from California, was to take place. The horses, comprising ten in number, worn landed here last month and is the first venture of trotting horses to the Antipodes for disposal. The late efforts to inaugurate trotting as one of the sports of the colonies is likely to be successful, and many will hope that Dr. Weir’s present enterprise will be sufficiently encouraging for that gentleman to introduce to Australia another batch of trotting horsea at a future date. Dr. Weir’s first efforts at establishing a trade between California and Australia is a cause for congratulation, and his judgment, too, is excellent, as the grand looking animals will testify. They are now to be seen at Garling’s Bazaar, Pitt-street, The Randwick course was kindly granted for the exhibition by the committee of the Australian Jockey Club.’
Very rare engraving from the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News, which was published from 1854 to 1889 and included a number of high quality engravings in each issue. Each engraved illustration would take an engraver between one and two weeks to make.
Frank Prout Mahony (1862 - 1916)
Mahony was born in Melbourne and christened Francis, Mahony later adding Prout and generally signed his work Frank P. Mahony. The family moved to Sydney when he was 10 and he was first employed in an architect's office. He studied under Giulio Anivitti at the New South Wales Academy of Art and he came to prominence through his work on the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia. Two of his contributions, the spearing of Edmund Kennedy and E. J. Eyre's struggle along the coast with the faithful Wylie, became part of the legendary of Australian exploration. From the Centenary until Federation, Mahony was one of the best-known Australian artists and illustrators, specialising in horses. His oils included 'Rounding up a Straggler' (1889), which possibly influenced Tom Roberts, and 'The Cry of the Mothers' (1895); both were bought by the National Art Gallery of New South Wales. More significant was his black-and-white work contributed to such journals as the Sydney Mail, the Bulletin and the Australian Town and Country Journal. In 1893 he illustrated A. B. Paterson's poem The Geebung Polo Club. Mahony was a founding council member in 1895 of the breakaway Society of Artists, an instructor at the Art Society of New South Wales, and a member of the Dawn and Dusk Club. After his death at the Kensington Infirmary on 28 June 1916, a memorial to 'our first Australian born artist' was erected 'by Australian admirers' at Mahony's grave in Hanwell cemetery, Middlesex.
