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C1886
Buckley’s Cave.
Colonial engraving the cave in what is now the Point Lonsdale Lighthouse that William Buckley, an escaped convict, lived in. Buckley was convicted of knowingly receiving a bolt of stolen cloth, he insisted that he was carrying it for a … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Buckley’s Cave.
Date:
C1886
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
125mm
x 90mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1886
Description:
Colonial engraving the cave in what is now the Point Lonsdale Lighthouse that William Buckley, an escaped convict, lived in.
Buckley was convicted of knowingly receiving a bolt of stolen cloth, he insisted that he was carrying it for a woman and did not know it was stolen. He was sentenced to transportation to Australia as a convict for 14 years. He traveled to the Sorrento colony at Sullivans Bay on board the HMS Calcutta. He escaped from the ill-fated settlement in 1803 after finding out they were going to be transported to the convict settlement in Tasmania. He made his way around the bay (Melbourne didn’t exist until the 1830s) and evaded capture and lived with the Wathaurong people. During this time, he is said to have lived in a cave located under what is now the Point Lonsdale Lighthouse
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 9829g.
Hughes-d’Aeth, T. Paper Nation : The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australia. Melbourne 2001.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 1654251
National Gallery Australia: LEGACY ID 34588
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1046852
Getty Museum Los Angeles: Object name: 1218593
State Library New South Wales: RECORD IDENTIFIER 74VvDRQZXzWd
State Library Victoria: CCF 919.4 G19
Julian Rossi Ashton (1851 - 1942)
Ashton was born in England, the elder son of a wealthy American, Thomas Briggs Ashton and his wife Henrietta, daughter of Count Carlo Rossi, a Sardinian diplomat. Soon after his birth the family moved to Cornwall, where his father, an amateur painter, encouraged the artistic leanings of Julian and his brother George. About 1862 the Ashtons moved to Totnes on the River Dart, where Julian attended the local grammar school, but his father died and the family, now in financial straits, went to London. Julian had art lessons from an old friend of his father whose teaching he described as 'the most helpful I ever had'. At 15 he took a job in the civil engineering branch of the Great Eastern Railway and attended the West London School of Art at night. After three years he joined a firm of ironmongers as a draftsman, but soon left to become a successful illustrator for such journals as Chatterbox and Cassell's Magazine. In 1873 he spent a few months at the new Académie Julian in Paris, and subsequently had work accepted by the Royal Academy of Arts. Ashton emigrated to Melbourne in 1878 to work as an artist for the Illustrated Australian News. In 1881 he worked at the Australasian Sketcher and in 1883 moved to Sydney to work on the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the Bulletin. Ashton became an influential patron and supporter of Australian through his roles as trustee of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales and numerous associations that he belonged to. He was awarded the Society of Artists' medal for distinguished services to Australian art in 1924, appointed C.B.E. in 1930, and won the Sydney sesquicentennial prize for a water-colour in 1938.
