C1884

King Street, from Pitt Street, Sydney.

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Scarce engraving of Graeme’s Corner, on the eastern corner of Pitt Street Mall, 142-144 Pitt Street Sydney. Grahame’s Corner was designed by G. A. Morell and built for the Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society from 1877 to 1882. The engraving … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

King Street, from Pitt Street, Sydney.

Date:

C1884

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

225mm

x 305mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1884

Description:

Scarce engraving of Graeme’s Corner, on the eastern corner of Pitt Street Mall, 142-144 Pitt Street Sydney.

Grahame’s Corner was designed by G. A. Morell and built for the Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society from 1877 to 1882. The engraving shows the building with its tower which was later removed.

From the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News.

References:
Gibbs & Shallard. Illustrated Sydney News. ISSN 2203-5397.

Collections:
State Library New South Wales: F8/39-40
State Library Victoria: PCINF SLVIC=1853-1872
National Library Australia: Bib ID 440095

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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