C1877

Collision between the S.S.Ballina and Barque Sylphide, off Sydney Heads.

The Sylphide was built in 1852 in Bremen, Germany She was 296 ton wooden barquentine registered in Melbourne and used for the transport of coastal cargo of timber bark. On the 16th of June 1877, on a trip from Portland Bay … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Collision between the S.S.Ballina and Barque Sylphide, off Sydney Heads.

Date:

C1877

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size: 

227mm 
x 170mm
AUTHENTICITY
Collision between the S.S.Ballina and Barque Sylphide, off Sydney Heads. - Antique Print from 1877

Genuine antique
dated:

1877

Description:

The Sylphide was built in 1852 in Bremen, Germany She was 296 ton wooden barquentine registered in Melbourne and used for the transport of coastal cargo of timber bark. On the 16th of June 1877, on a trip from Portland Bay to Sydney, the vessel collided with the Ballina 1.5 miles off Dee Why Head, Sydney and sank. The Sylphide was mastered by James Peo with 9 crew members and owned by Messers Pigott. 

 
From the original edition of the Illustrated Australian News. Rare.

J.W.C. - James Waltham Curtis (1839 - 1901)

Curtis was a painter, illustrator and photographic colourist. A regular exhibitor at the Black and White exhibitions, Victorian Academy of Arts, in the 1880s. painter, illustrator and photographic colourist, was born in Devonshire. He had worked on the London Graphic and Sketcher before coming to Victoria, probably with the goldrush. In Melbourne he worked first as a colourist for Johnstone, O’Shannessy and Co., then as an illustrator on the Illustrated Australian News succeeding O.R. Campbell. He often signed his works with the monogram.

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