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C1862
Bank of New South Wales, Melbourne.
Finely engraved view of the Bank of New South Wales at 368-374 Collins St, Melbourne and designed by Melbourne architect Joseph Reed and constructed in 1856-7. Reed was awarded first prize, worth £75, in the Bank of New South Wales’ … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Bank of New South Wales, Melbourne.
Date:
C1862
Artist:
Unknown
Engraver:
Arthur Wilmore
(1814 –
1888)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
170mm
x 110mm
Paper Size:
277mm
x 207mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1862
Description:
Finely engraved view of the Bank of New South Wales at 368-374 Collins St, Melbourne and designed by Melbourne architect Joseph Reed and constructed in 1856-7. Reed was awarded first prize, worth £75, in the Bank of New South Wales’ competition to design their new Melbourne headquarters on a vacant block of land facing the prominent Criterion Hotel.
The façade was transplanted from Collins Street to the University of Melbourne in 1938, after its demolition in 1932 due to ongoing structural problems and to make way for a newer, larger Art Deco design.
Biography:
Arthur Willmore (1814–1888)
Wilmore was born at Birmingham on 6 June 1814, brother of James Tibbitts Willmore, by whom he was trained. He became an engraver, excelling chiefly in landscape work. He was extensively employed and executed many plates for the ‘Art Journal’ from pictures by Collins, Cooke, Creswick, Rubens, Stanfield, Turner, Van Dyck, and others. His most important work was ‘The Return of the Lifeboat,’ after E. Duncan, engraved for the Art Union, 1878. Willmore frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1858 and 1885.
He died on 3 Nov. 1888.
