Marysville, Victoria. - Antique View from 1874
C1874

Marysville, Victoria.

Artist:

Nicholas Chevalier (1828 - 1902)

$A 85

Early colonial engraving of Marysville, Victoria only ten years after it was surveyed.  It prospered following the reconstruction of the Yarra Track as an all weather dray and coach road under engineer Clement Wilks in the 1870s. It was named … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Marysville, Victoria.

Date:

C1874

Artist:

Nicholas Chevalier (1828 - 1902)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size: 

175mm 
x 130mm

Paper Size: 

269mm 
x 202mm
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Marysville, Victoria. - Antique View from 1874

Genuine antique
dated:

1874

Description:

Early colonial engraving of Marysville, Victoria only ten years after it was surveyed.  It prospered following the reconstruction of the Yarra Track as an all weather dray and coach road under engineer Clement Wilks in the 1870s. It was named after Mary Steavenson, the wife of Assistant Commissioner of Roads and Bridges John Steavenson after whom the popular Steavenson Falls are named. The Marysville Post Office opened on 1 March 1865 followed by a school in 1870.

Nicholas Chevalier (1828 - 1902)

Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902) Chevalier was born in St Petersburg, Russia. He studied painting in Switzerland, moving to London in 1851 achieving some success in painting and lithography. He arrived at Melbourne in 1855, visited the goldfields, attended to his father's business and planned his return to Europe but the newly-established Melbourne Punch and later, the Illustrated Australian News found his talents invaluable and he decided to stay. He was very popular as artist for Melbourne Punch and in establishing himself in Melbourne colonial society as a painter and lithographer. After exploring and painting in many parts of Victoria, Chevalier visited New Zealand where he travelled widely, painting landscapes that reminded him of his ancestral home. From 1882 he was London adviser to the National Gallery of New South Wales. He died in London on 15 March 1902.

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