C1886

Mackenzie Plains

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The Mackenzie Country, as it is known, is a high inland basin beneath the Southern Alps and Mount Cook, south west of Christchurch.

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S/N: PAA-NZ-3635–198785
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Full Title:

Mackenzie Plains

Date:

C1886

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size: 

175mm 
x 140mm
AUTHENTICITY
Mackenzie Plains - Antique Print from 1886

Genuine antique
dated:

1886

Description:

The Mackenzie Country, as it is known, is a high inland basin beneath the Southern Alps and Mount Cook, south west of Christchurch.

Frederic B. Schell (1838 - 1900)

Schell was an American employed as the senior artist on the most ambitious colonial publication ever attempetd, The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia. He arrived in Sydney with two other American artists, W.T. Smedley and W. C. Fitler, plus a number of engravers including Horace Baker. When Phil May returned to England in 1888 Schell accompanied him. The Grafton Gallery 'Exhibition of Australian Art in London’ 1898 included F.B. Schell, cat.250, 'Junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, N.S.W.’, cat.254, 'Hamilton Reach, Brisbane’, cat. 255, 'Sydney Harbour, N.S.W.’, lent by the Trustees of Sydney Gallery. He is represented in a number of institutional collections.

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