C1878

Manufacturing Industries of New South Wales- Interior Views of Mr.Evan Jones’ Premises, Hunter Street.

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

$A 275

Early image of Evan Jone’s Hunter Street jewellers. Jones was a jeweller born in London about 1846. He migrated to Australia in 1855 and was apprenticed to a goldsmith in Hunter Street, Sydney. In the 1870s he set up business … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Manufacturing Industries of New South Wales- Interior Views of Mr.Evan Jones’ Premises, Hunter Street.

Date:

C1878

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

224mm

x 175mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1878

Description:

Early image of Evan Jone’s Hunter Street jewellers.

Jones was a jeweller born in London about 1846. He migrated to Australia in 1855 and was apprenticed to a goldsmith in Hunter Street, Sydney. In the 1870s he set up business in the same street, at number 15, later moving to number 11. He also worked at Erskine Street during his career. Jones became active in the City Council as an Alderman, and had six children. He died in 1917.

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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