C1885

At Port Moresby, from a Sketch by A.S. Cleeve, Esq, of H.M.S. “Nelson.”

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

$A 145

Scare c.19th engraving of Mission Station, Port Moresby. 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: … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

At Port Moresby, from a Sketch by A.S. Cleeve, Esq, of H.M.S. “Nelson.”

Date:

C1885

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

203mm

x 151mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1885

Description:

Scare c.19th engraving of Mission Station, Port Moresby.

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

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.

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