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C1876
Encounter with a Shark in Sydney Harbor. sic
Very rare colonial image showing a diver fighting off a shark from the original edition of the Illustrated Australian News.
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Full Title:
Encounter with a Shark in Sydney Harbor. sic
Date:
C1876
Engraver:
Samuel Calvert
Condition:
Technique:
Image Size:
227mm
x 173mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1876
Description:
Very rare colonial image showing a diver fighting off a shark from the original edition of the Illustrated Australian News.
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.
