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C1852
Convict Tramway.
Scarce colonial lithograph of the convict powered railway cart at Port Arthur, Tasmania dated 1852. Beside the modern road (at Port Arthur) can be seen the remains of the convict tramway between Taranna and Oakwood, constructed to shorten the time-consuming … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Convict Tramway.
Date:
C1852
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
180mm
x 110mm
Paper Size:
215mm
x 135mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1852
Description:
Scarce colonial lithograph of the convict powered railway cart at Port Arthur, Tasmania dated 1852.
Beside the modern road (at Port Arthur) can be seen the remains of the convict tramway between Taranna and Oakwood, constructed to shorten the time-consuming voyage round the southern tip of the Tasman Peninsula. The carriages were pushed and pulled along the tracks by convicts.
References:
Craig, C. More Old Tasmanian Prints. Launceston 1984 :: pl. no. 64.
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: 12597.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 40722
State Library Victoria: Accession no: H28599
State Library New South Wales: Call Numbers: 85/144
Craig, C. More Old Tasmanian Prints. Launceston 1984 :: pl. no. 64.
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: 12597.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 40722
State Library Victoria: Accession no: H28599
State Library New South Wales: Call Numbers: 85/144
Godfrey Charles Mundy (1804 - 1860)
Mundy was a soldier and author. He entered the army as an ensign in 1821, was commissioned lieutenant in 1823, captain 1826, major 1839, lieutenant-colonel 1845, and colonel 1854. In 1825-26 he was decorated while serving in India as aide-de-camp to Lord Combermere at the siege and storming of Bhurtpore. He was later stationed in Canada and arrived in Sydney from London in the Agincourt in June 1846 as deputy adjutant general of the military forces in Australia. In Australia Mundy accompanied his cousin Governor Sir Charles Fitzroy on several outback tours in New South Wales, and visited Victoria, Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand. He left in August 1851 and during the Crimean war was appointed under-secretary in the War Office. On 4 April 1857 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of Jersey in the Channel Islands with the local rank of major-general. He died in London on 10 July 1860 survived by his wife Louisa Katrina Herbert, whom he had married in Sydney on 6 June 1848, and by their son.
