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C1883
Moss Vale, From the Exhibition Ground.
Rare detailed engraving of Moss Vale only sixteen years after the town was established which occurred after the coming of the railway. A steam train on the right can be seeing heading into the township. From the original edition of … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Moss Vale, From the Exhibition Ground.
Date:
C1883
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
323mm
x 215mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1883
Description:
Rare detailed engraving of Moss Vale only sixteen years after the town was established which occurred after the coming of the railway. A steam train on the right can be seeing heading into the township.
From the original edition of the, Illustrated Sydney News.
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.
