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C1876
Cricket.-Brewers V. Publicans. Memory Sketches by our Spirited Artist.
Comical engraving of incidents for the Sydney cricket match between brewers and publicans. From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
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Full Title:
Cricket.-Brewers V. Publicans. Memory Sketches by our Spirited Artist.
Date:
C1876
Artist:
Unknown
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
240mm
x 370mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1876
Description:
Comical engraving of incidents for the Sydney cricket match between brewers and publicans.
From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
Biography:
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.
