C1883

In and About Wagga Wagga.

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

$A 145

Rare engraved views of Wagga Wagga depicting the most prominent buildings of the town which had been made a municipality in 1870. Title captions: 1. Railway Bridge Across the Murrumbidgee, 2. The Murrumbidgee River, from Church Hill, 3. Council Chambers, … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

In and About Wagga Wagga.

Date:

C1883

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Engraving.

Image Size:

225mm

x 325mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1883

Description:

Rare engraved views of Wagga Wagga depicting the most prominent buildings of the town which had been made a municipality in 1870.

Title captions:
1. Railway Bridge Across the Murrumbidgee, 2. The Murrumbidgee River, from Church Hill, 3. Council Chambers, 4. Court-House, Post and Telegraph Office, 5. The Hospital 6. Bridge across the Woollundry Lagoon, 7. The Company’s Bridge Across the Murrumbidgee.

From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Collingridge was a painter, illustrator and teacher who became staff artist for the Illustrated London News and The Graphic both very successful London newspapers, before emigrating to Australia. He was one of several sons in an old Catholic family from Godington Manor, Oxfordshire. Like his brother George , he mostly dropped the 'de Tourcey’ in Australia. came to Sydney in 1879 where he worked as an illustrator for the Sydney Mail , the Town and Country Journal. He founded the New South Wales Art Society and was staff artist of the Illustrated Sydney News. Collingridge exhibited widely, mainly in New South Wales and was a founding member of the Royal Art Society of NSW 1880.

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