C1880
Churches in Hobart Town
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Full Title:
Churches in Hobart Town
Date:
C1880
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
227mm
x 330mm
Paper Size:
264mm
x 380mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1880
Description:
Scarce colonial engraving of the churches of Hobart, Tasmania, featuring the following churches:
St. John Baptist – Goulburn St., St. George – Cromwell St., All Saints – Macquarie St. , St. Joseph’s – Macquarie St., Holy Trinity – Warwick St., Independent – Brisbane St., Wesleyan, Davey St., Mariners – Franklin Wharf., Chalmers – Bathurst St.
From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 914558
State Library New South Wales: REF1/MAV/FM4/9236-9239
State Library Victoria: PCINF AS 06-09-73 P.104
Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)
Collingridge was a painter, illustrator and teacher who became staff artist for the Illustrated London News and The Graphic both very successful London newspapers, before emigrating to Australia. He was one of several sons in an old Catholic family from Godington Manor, Oxfordshire. Like his brother George , he mostly dropped the 'de Tourcey’ in Australia. came to Sydney in 1879 where he worked as an illustrator for the Sydney Mail , the Town and Country Journal. He founded the New South Wales Art Society and was staff artist of the Illustrated Sydney News. Collingridge exhibited widely, mainly in New South Wales and was a founding member of the Royal Art Society of NSW 1880.
