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C1875
Holiday Making on the Beach.
Very rare large colonial engraving of crowds at an Adelaide Beach on Christmas Day 1875. Contemporary description: The Semaphore, Henley Beach, the Gorge, and other vantage grounds of Adelaide present almost equally busy scenes, while the Port River is literally … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Holiday Making on the Beach.
Date:
C1875
Condition:
In good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
480mm
x 350mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1875
Description:
Very rare large colonial engraving of crowds at an Adelaide Beach on Christmas Day 1875.
Contemporary description:
The Semaphore, Henley Beach, the Gorge, and other vantage grounds of Adelaide present almost equally busy scenes, while the Port River is literally covered morning and evening with boats going to and returning from, the Christmas picnic, which has grown into an an annual institution.
From the original edition of the Illustrated Adelaide News.
Collections:
State Library South Australia: record=b1064988~S1
National Library Australia: Bib ID 6893366
State Library South Australia: record=b1064988~S1
National Library Australia: Bib ID 6893366
O.R.C. - Oswald Rose Campbell (1820 - 1887)
Campbell was an artist born in the Channel Islands, arrived in Melbourne in October 1852. He then moved to Sydney for brief period and returned to Melbourne in 1864. On Thomas Clark's retirement, Campbell applied again for appointment as drawing-master at the School of Design, claiming that for the past twelve years he had been drawing on wood, chiefly figures for the illustrated papers. He was appointed on 1 December 1876 at a salary of £250.
