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C1868
Bowen, or Port Denison, Northern Queensland.
Artist:
John Rider Roberts (1820 - 1868)
Captain James Cook named Cape Gloucester in 1770. This ‘cape’ turned out to be an island, and Gloucester Island dominates the view from Bowen’s eastern beaches. Behind the island is a bay that forms an excellent port, which the town … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Bowen, or Port Denison, Northern Queensland.
Date:
C1868
Artist:
John Rider Roberts (1820 - 1868)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1868
Description:
Captain James Cook named Cape Gloucester in 1770. This ‘cape’ turned out to be an island, and Gloucester Island dominates the view from Bowen’s eastern beaches. Behind the island is a bay that forms an excellent port, which the town came to be built around. This bay was eventually discovered in 1859 by Captain Henry Daniel Sinclair, in response to a reward offered by the colony of New South Wales for finding a port somewhere north of Rockhampton. Sinclair named Port Denison after the colonial governor of New South Wales. Two years later, Sinclair led one group of settlers by sea, and George Elphinstone Dalrymple led another party overland from Rockhampton. They met on 11 April 1861 at Port Denison and founded the town of Bowen on the next day, 13 April 1861. By this time, the separate colony of Queensland had been established, and the town was named after Queensland’s first colonial governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen.
Very rare engraving from the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
Biography:
John Rider Roberts 1820-1868
Painter, illustrator, surveyor and architect. Roberts was
Closely associated with the Illustrated Sydney News, providing many of the illustrations. He was a well known watercolourist and exhibited in many colonial exhibitions.
