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C1881
Getting Over a Difficulty.-Corduroy Road, Beyond Fernshaw.
Scarce colonial engraving showing the difficulties of travel through the forest beyond Fernshaw. Collections: State Library Victoria: Accession no: IAN29/01/81/8D
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S/N: IAN-VC-810129008D–387133
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Full Title:
Getting Over a Difficulty.-Corduroy Road, Beyond Fernshaw.
Date:
C1881
Condition:
Repaired tear at lower margin just into the image, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
225mm
x 107mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1881
Description:
Scarce colonial engraving showing the difficulties of travel through the forest beyond Fernshaw.
Collections:
State Library Victoria: Accession no: IAN29/01/81/8D
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.
