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C1851
Arrival of the Government Gold Conveyance at the Colonial Treasury Sydney on August 21 1851; From a Sketch by Marshal Claxton.
Artist:
Marshal Claxton (1811 - 1881)
Early colonial engraving of the gold escort from the New South Wales gold fields outside of Ballarat to the Treasury building, Sydney. From the original edition of The Illustrated London News, London.
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Full Title:
Arrival of the Government Gold Conveyance at the Colonial Treasury Sydney on August 21 1851; From a Sketch by Marshal Claxton.
Date:
C1851
Artist:
Marshal Claxton (1811 - 1881)
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
235mm
x 165mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1851
Description:
Early colonial engraving of the gold escort from the New South Wales gold fields outside of Ballarat to the Treasury building, Sydney.
From the original edition of The Illustrated London News, London.
Artist:
Marshall Claxton (1811-1881)
Claxton was an English subject, genre, landscape and portrait painter. In 1850 Claxton went to Sydney, Australia, with a large collection of pictures, but had little success in selling them. While in Sydney he painted a large picture, “Suffer little children to come unto me“, a commission from the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. This was described in Household Words as ‘the first important picture‘ painted in Australia. In September 1854 Claxton left Sydney for Calcutta, where he sold several of his pictures. He returned to England in 1858 via Egypt, and died in London after a long illness on 28 July 1881.
