C1882

Intercolonial Bowling Match at Cook Park…

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Rare engraving of colonial bowling match being played at Cook Park bowling club which was previously on the College Street frontage of Cook Park. The bowling club was built in 1880 and was one of Sydney’s first. From the original edition … Read Full Description

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S/N: ISN-NS-82012–197729

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Full Title:

Intercolonial Bowling Match at Cook Park, Sydney.

Date:

C1882

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Genuine antique
dated:

1882

Description:

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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