C1882

Northern Queensland.-Port Denison and its vicinity.

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

$A 195

Very rare engraving of places around Port Denison. Captions of each panel Pine Head, Lion Rock, Anchor Island, Cape Conway, Barren Island, Sir James Smith Group, Molle Passage, Bowen Lighthouse, Pioneer Rock Wreck of the Valerio and Bowen Wharf. From … Read Full Description

Add to Cart

In stock

S/N: ISN-QC-820218008–221266

(C038)

Categories: Queensland

Within Australia

All orders free shipping

Rest of the World

Orders over A$300 ship free worldwide

Details

Full Title:

Northern Queensland.-Port Denison and its vicinity.

Date:

C1882

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

220mm

x 323mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1882

Description:

Very rare engraving of places around Port Denison.

Captions of each panel Pine Head, Lion Rock, Anchor Island, Cape Conway, Barren Island, Sir James Smith Group, Molle Passage, Bowen Lighthouse, Pioneer Rock Wreck of the Valerio and Bowen Wharf.

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.

View other items by Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey