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C1886
Bushranger’s Cave, Mount Victoria.
Artist:
Colonial engraving of Bushrangers Cave which is off the Zig-Zag track near Mount Victoria. It was discovered by a son of John Skene on entering the cave, found an old flint-lock Tower musket, a sugar-basin, cobbler’s last and a fragment … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Bushranger’s Cave, Mount Victoria.
Date:
C1886
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
126mm
x 251mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1886
Description:
Colonial engraving of Bushrangers Cave which is off the Zig-Zag track near Mount Victoria.
It was discovered by a son of John Skene on entering the cave, found an old flint-lock Tower musket, a sugar-basin, cobbler’s last and a fragment of an old Sydney newspaper bearing the date 1822. Lithgow Mercury 1899.
Frederic B. Schell (1838 - 1900)
Schell was an American employed as the senior artist on the most ambitious colonial publication ever attempetd, The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia. He arrived in Sydney with two other American artists, W.T. Smedley and W. C. Fitler, plus a number of engravers including Horace Baker. When Phil May returned to England in 1888 Schell accompanied him. The Grafton Gallery 'Exhibition of Australian Art in London’ 1898 included F.B. Schell, cat.250, 'Junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, N.S.W.’, cat.254, 'Hamilton Reach, Brisbane’, cat. 255, 'Sydney Harbour, N.S.W.’, lent by the Trustees of Sydney Gallery. He is represented in a number of institutional collections.
