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C1865
Departure of the MIntyre Expedition in Search of Leichardt. sic (McIntyre).
Artist:
Samuel Calvert (1828 - 1913)
Duncan McIntyre was an Australian explorer who followed in the tracks of Burke and Wills. In 1864 he laid claim to the property now called Dalgonally in north-west Queensland, and found evidence of Ludwig Leichhardt’s final expedition. McIntyre convinced the … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Departure of the MIntyre Expedition in Search of Leichardt. sic (McIntyre).
Date:
C1865
Artist:
Samuel Calvert (1828 - 1913)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
375mm
x 235mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1865
Description:
Duncan McIntyre was an Australian explorer who followed in the tracks of Burke and Wills. In 1864 he laid claim to the property now called Dalgonally in north-west Queensland, and found evidence of Ludwig Leichhardt’s final expedition.
McIntyre convinced the President of the Royal Society of Victoria, Ferdinand von Mueller to finance a search expedition for Leichhardt. Von Mueller organised a committee of Melbourne ladies who raised 1,500 pounds for the ‘Ladies Leichhardt Search Expedition‘. Duncan McIntyre led the expedition taking seven camels with him (although Giles ‘Australia Twice Traversed says 16). The party also included two sepoy camel handlers, Belooch Khan and Esau Khan.
He subsequently led a party in search of Leichhardt, but died of fever during the search.
Biography:
Samuel Calvert (1828-1913)
A prolific painter and wood-engraver published in nearly all the Melbourne illustrated papers and periodicals. Brought up in a family circle dedicated to art, Samuel was taught painting, designing, etching and engraving by his father. His older brothers John and William migrated to South Australia in 1843 and Samuel follDeparture of the McIntyre Expedition in Search of Leichhardt owed in 1848. On 24 January 1852 Calvert left for Melbourne and again worked as a wood-engraver, providing illustrations for books and advertisements and for the illustrated monthly magazine The Armchair (1853-54). In 1867 he again set up commercially as a wood-engraver, at 87 Little Collins Street East, close to William’s printery in the same street. He returned to England in 1888.
