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C1846
Cape Jervis.
George French Angas’s rare view of Cape Jervis looking south towards Kangaroo Island, from the largest and earliest series of lithographs of the infant colony of South Australia. Angas’s account; This scene is taken at low water from the rocks … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Cape Jervis.
Date:
C1846
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
345mm
x 255mm
Paper Size:
537mm
x 364mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1846
Description:
George French Angas’s rare view of Cape Jervis looking south towards Kangaroo Island, from the largest and earliest series of lithographs of the infant colony of South Australia.
Angas’s account; This scene is taken at low water from the rocks of micaceous schist that extend between Rapid Bay and Cape Jervis: it commands a fine view of the Cape, with the opposite shores of Kangaroo Island, about Antichamber Bay. Between Kangaroo Island and the mainland at Cape Jervis is one of the entrances to St Vincent’s Gulf, called Backstair’s Passage. Vessels bound to the Eastward take this channel. The other approach to the Gulf, from the westward, is through Investigator’s Straits, which extend between Kangaroo Island and Cape Spencer. This Island which is about one hundred and twenty miles long, forms a complete natural breakwater to Gulf St. Vincent: it is almost entirely covered with scrub, and like most of the Australian Islands is barren and unfit for cultivation. The first settlement was formed upon it by the South Australian Company, before the establishment of Adelaide, upon the mainland, but it has long since been abandoned, from want of water and pasture land. The settlement was called Kingscote, and was situated at the Southern Extremity of Nepean Bay. The birds represented upon the rocks in the plate, are cormorants, which abound along the sea shore.
From George French Angas’s, South Australia Illustrated. London.
References:
Gill, T. Bibliography of South Australia. Adelaide. (1886) 1976 : p.16.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 : P.309-316..
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 4457, Volume IV.
Tregenza, J. George French Angas. Artist, Traveller and Naturalist 1822-1886. Adelaide 1980 : ill. front cover +.
Abbey, J.R. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. London 1972: II, 577.
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790 to 1860. Folkstone 1973 : 62.
Colas, R. Bibliographie generale du Costume et de la Mode. Paris 1933 : 133.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 1842283
State Library South Australia: 994.2T A581 d
National Gallery Australia: ACCESSION NUMBER 66.7.3.4
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1070959
University Library Melbourne: 919.42302 ANGA
National Gallery Victoria: Accession Number2011.338
State Library Victoria: RARELTEF 919.42 AN4S
George French Angas (1822 - 1886)
Angas was a painter, lithographer, engraver and naturalist, fourth child and eldest son of George Fife Angas, a merchant and banker. As the eldest son he was expected to join his father's firm, but some months in a London counting house proved a disillusioning experience. In 1841 he took art lessons for four months from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a natural history painter and lithographer, and armed with this instruction set out to see the world. He began in the Mediterranean publishing, A Ramble in Malta and Sicily in the Autumn of 1841.......Illustrated with Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Drawn on the Stone by the Author, the following year. Angas's father had established the South Australian Company in 1836 and had large areas of land as well as banking interests in the province. George French sailed for South Australia in 1843 in the Augustus, arriving in Adelaide on 1st January 1844. Within days he had joined an exploring party selecting runs for the South Australia Company. They traveled through the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Murray River and down to Lake Coorong and Angas sketched views of the countryside, native animals and the customs and dwellings of the Narrinyerri people. Later he drew scenes on his father's land - 28,000 acres in the Barossa Valley - and accompanied George Grey's expedition to the then unknown south-east as unofficial artist. In July 1844 Angas visited New Zealand. Guided by two Maoris, he traveled on foot and by canoe through both islands, painting portraits of Maoris and views. Angas's father died in 1879, leaving a vast estate from which George French received only a annuity of 1000 pounds. In 1884 he went to Dominica on a collecting expedition, finding shells, moths, butterflies and birds. Dogged by rheumatism and neuralgia during his last years, Angas died in London on 4 October 1886.
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James William Giles (1801 - 1870)
Giles was a painter and lithographer born in Glasgow , the son of a designer at the local calico. The family moved to Aberdeen around 1805 where his father worked in a printing factory at Aberdeen and was an artist of some repute. His father's early death threw his son at an early age upon his own resources and at 13 he maintained himself, his mother and sister by painting, and before he was 20 was teaching private classes in Aberdeen. At 21 he married a widow Clementina Farquharson. He then became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy and elected to the council of the Spalding Club. He first exhibited at the "Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland", and in 1829 became an academician of the Royal Scottish Academy, and contributed numerous works to its exhibitions from that time until near the close of his career. He also exhibited frequently at the British Institution in London, and occasionally at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists.
