C1878

Norfolk Island.

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

$A 325

Rare c.19th hand coloured engraving of Norfolk Island, with excellent detail of the settlement from a sketch by Captain Armstrong. Titles of inset views from top, clockwise; The Barracks & Govt House The Old Gallows The Bloody Bridge From the … Read Full Description

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S/N: ISN-PI-NI-78081009–234202

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Full Title:

Norfolk Island.

Date:

C1878

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

322mm

x 215mm

Paper Size:

365mm

x 265mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1878

Description:

Rare c.19th hand coloured engraving of Norfolk Island, with excellent detail of the settlement from a sketch by Captain Armstrong.

Titles of inset views from top, clockwise;
The Barracks & Govt House
The Old Gallows
The Bloody Bridge
From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.

References:
Gibbs & Shallard. Illustrated Sydney News. ISSN 2203-5397.

Collections:
State Library New South Wales: F8/39-40
State Library Victoria: PCINF SLVIC=1853-1872
National Library Australia: Bib ID 440095

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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