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C1838
Basaltic Rocks Campaspi River, Near Port Phillip. sic
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Rare lithographed view of the basaltic formations on the Campaspe River, Victoria from an ink drawing by George Hamilton (1812-1883). From: Grey, Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, Under … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Basaltic Rocks Campaspi River, Near Port Phillip. sic
Date:
C1838
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
185mm
x 125mm
Paper Size:
221mm
x 140mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1838
Description:
Rare lithographed view of the basaltic formations on the Campaspe River, Victoria from an ink drawing by George Hamilton (1812-1883).
From: Grey, Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty’s Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the Aboriginal inhabitants, ……
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 3228.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney, 1987 : 131.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID: 740610
State Library Queensland: 996964214702061
State Library South Australia: 994.1 G843
State Library Victoria: CC 919.41 G86J
State Library New South Wales: 1841 RB/E919.41/GRE
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1141869
George Hamilton (1812 - 1883)
Artist and police commissioner, born on 12 March 1812, probably in Hertfordshire, England, one of at least eight children of Charles Hamilton. Following education at Harrow School in 1823-26, George served in the navy as a midshipman. He reached Sydney before 1837, when he overlanded sheep to Australia Felix. In 1839, following Charles Bonney's southern route, he drove cattle to Adelaide. He began mixed farming in partnership with Arthur Hardy, while venturing, with scant success, into commerce and lithography, and visiting Melbourne in 1846. Next year he helped to organize the first exhibition of South Australian artists' works, including some of his own. A founding member of the South Australian Society of Arts in 1856, he won and gave prizes, and later acted as a judge, at its exhibitions. He contributed some of the illustrations for published journals of exploration by (Sir) George Grey and E. J. Eyre.
