C1872
Mob of Horses Fording a Creek
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Details
Full Title:
Mob of Horses Fording a Creek
Date:
C1872
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
225mm
x 152mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1872
Description:
Rare engraving of stock men driving a mob of horse through a creek
From the original ediition of the Illustrated Australian News.
J.W.C. - James Waltham Curtis (1839 - 1901)
Curtis was a painter, illustrator and photographic colourist. A regular exhibitor at the Black and White exhibitions, Victorian Academy of Arts, in the 1880s. painter, illustrator and photographic colourist, was born in Devonshire. He had worked on the London Graphic and Sketcher before coming to Victoria, probably with the goldrush. In Melbourne he worked first as a colourist for Johnstone, O’Shannessy and Co., then as an illustrator on the Illustrated Australian News succeeding O.R. Campbell. He often signed his works with the monogram.
