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C1846
Encounter Bay.
Rare c.19th lithograph with fine original hand colouring and gum Arabic highlights of George French Angas’s famous view of Encounter Bay. Angas’s description; : The view is taken from the road leading to Mr Strangway’s station; looking southwards over Victor Harbour, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Encounter Bay.
Date:
C1846
Engraver:
J.W. Giles
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph with original hand colouring and gum Arabic highlights.
Image Size:
354mm
x 255mm
Paper Size:
538mm
x 360mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1846
Description:
Rare c.19th lithograph with fine original hand colouring and gum Arabic highlights of George French Angas’s famous view of Encounter Bay.
Angas’s description; : The view is taken from the road leading to Mr Strangway’s station; looking southwards over Victor Harbour, towards Granite Island, and Wright Island, with the conical bluff of Rosetta Head stretching out to the west’.
Angas made this image on his tour of Fleurieu Peninsular in MArch 1844. He depicts the view which suddenly strikes the traveller descending from the hills along the Inman Valley road. The South Australian Company established a whaling station at Encounter Bay very soon after settlement in 1836 and whaling was actively carried on by the Company’s successors in 1844. The flag pole used for signalling the arrival of whales can be seen on the summit of Rosetta Head, a singular outcrop of granite named after the artist’s eldest sister. The figure on horseback is probably intended to represent the artist himself, accompanied by an Aboriginal carrying his portfolio of sketches. (Tregenza p.36)
This one of the most desirable images from South Australia Illustrated.
From George French Angas’s, South Australia Illustrated. London.
References:
Gill, T. Bibliography of South Australia. Adelaide. (1886) 1976 :: p.16.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney, 1987 :: P.309-316..
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: Volume IV, 4457.
Tregenza, J. George French Angas. Artist, Traveller and Naturalist 1822-1886. Adelaide 1980 :: pp. 8-10, 4. p.36Angas made Ill. front cover (watercolour).
Abbey, J.R. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. London 1972:: II, 577.
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790 to 1860. Folkstone 1973 :: 62.
Colas, R. Bibliographie generale du Costume et de la Mode. Paris 1933 :: 133.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 1842283
State Library South Australia: 994.2T A581 d
National Gallery Australia: ACCESSION NUMBER 66.7.3.4
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1070959
University Library Melbourne: 919.42302 ANGA
National Gallery Victoria: Accession Number2011.338
State Library Victoria: RARELTEF 919.42 AN4S
Gill, T. Bibliography of South Australia. Adelaide. (1886) 1976 :: p.16.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney, 1987 :: P.309-316..
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: Volume IV, 4457.
Tregenza, J. George French Angas. Artist, Traveller and Naturalist 1822-1886. Adelaide 1980 :: pp. 8-10, 4. p.36Angas made Ill. front cover (watercolour).
Abbey, J.R. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. London 1972:: II, 577.
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790 to 1860. Folkstone 1973 :: 62.
Colas, R. Bibliographie generale du Costume et de la Mode. Paris 1933 :: 133.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 1842283
State Library South Australia: 994.2T A581 d
National Gallery Australia: ACCESSION NUMBER 66.7.3.4
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1070959
University Library Melbourne: 919.42302 ANGA
National Gallery Victoria: Accession Number2011.338
State Library Victoria: RARELTEF 919.42 AN4S
George French Angas (1822 - 1886)
Angas was a painter, lithographer, engraver and naturalist, fourth child and eldest son of George Fife Angas, a merchant and banker. As the eldest son he was expected to join his father's firm, but some months in a London counting house proved a disillusioning experience. In 1841 he took art lessons for four months from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a natural history painter and lithographer, and armed with this instruction set out to see the world. He began in the Mediterranean publishing, A Ramble in Malta and Sicily in the Autumn of 1841.......Illustrated with Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Drawn on the Stone by the Author, the following year. Angas's father had established the South Australian Company in 1836 and had large areas of land as well as banking interests in the province. George French sailed for South Australia in 1843 in the Augustus, arriving in Adelaide on 1st January 1844. Within days he had joined an exploring party selecting runs for the South Australia Company. They traveled through the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Murray River and down to Lake Coorong and Angas sketched views of the countryside, native animals and the customs and dwellings of the Narrinyerri people. Later he drew scenes on his father's land - 28,000 acres in the Barossa Valley - and accompanied George Grey's expedition to the then unknown south-east as unofficial artist. In July 1844 Angas visited New Zealand. Guided by two Maoris, he traveled on foot and by canoe through both islands, painting portraits of Maoris and views. Angas's father died in 1879, leaving a vast estate from which George French received only a annuity of 1000 pounds. In 1884 he went to Dominica on a collecting expedition, finding shells, moths, butterflies and birds. Dogged by rheumatism and neuralgia during his last years, Angas died in London on 4 October 1886.
