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C1879
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Rare engraving of the French Man-of-War, La Victorieuse which visited Sydney on 6th February, 1879 before heading to the French colony of New Caledonia. La Victorieuse (Victorious) was the second ship of the La Galissonnière class of wooden-hulled, armored corvettes built … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
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Date:
C1879
Condition:
Small repaired tear in sky at top, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
225mm
x 150mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1879
Description:
Rare engraving of the French Man-of-War, La Victorieuse which visited Sydney on 6th February, 1879 before heading to the French colony of New Caledonia. La Victorieuse (Victorious) was the second ship of the La Galissonnière class of wooden-hulled, armored corvettes built for the French Navy during the 1870s.
From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)
Collingridge was a painter, illustrator and teacher who became staff artist for the Illustrated London News and The Graphic both very successful London newspapers, before emigrating to Australia. He was one of several sons in an old Catholic family from Godington Manor, Oxfordshire. Like his brother George , he mostly dropped the 'de Tourcey’ in Australia. came to Sydney in 1879 where he worked as an illustrator for the Sydney Mail , the Town and Country Journal. He founded the New South Wales Art Society and was staff artist of the Illustrated Sydney News. Collingridge exhibited widely, mainly in New South Wales and was a founding member of the Royal Art Society of NSW 1880.
