C1884

At Port Moresby, New Guinea.

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Scare c.19th engraving of New Guinea dwellings at Port Moresby. Insets; Top: The New Guinea Institution Building, Port Moresby. Centre: Native Missionaries from Tahiti on Board the & John Williams. Bottom: Mission Station, Port Moresby. From the original edition of The … Read Full Description

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S/N: ISN-PI-NG-840119021–192494

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Full Title:

At Port Moresby, New Guinea.

Date:

C1884

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

240mm

x 370mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1884

Description:

Scare c.19th engraving of New Guinea dwellings at Port Moresby.

Insets;
Top: The New Guinea Institution Building, Port Moresby.
Centre: Native Missionaries from Tahiti on Board the & John Williams.
Bottom: 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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