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C1865
Opening of the Queensland Railway.-The First Train Passing over Iron Pot Gully.
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Rare colonial engraving of the opening of Queensland’s first railway. The first section of the Ipswich to Grandchester railway, Ipswich, 1865 was officially opened between Ipswich and Bigge’s Camp (later called Grandchester). This line was the first narrow gauge (3 … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Opening of the Queensland Railway.-The First Train Passing over Iron Pot Gully.
Date:
C1865
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
186mm
x 113mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1865
Description:
Rare colonial engraving of the opening of Queensland’s first railway. The first section of the Ipswich to Grandchester railway, Ipswich, 1865 was officially opened between Ipswich and Bigge’s Camp (later called Grandchester). This line was the first narrow gauge (3 feet 3 inches) railway in Australia. So important was this event that a public holiday was decreed. The construction of this line represented the determination of the colony of Queensland that it could successfully go it alone after its separation from New South Wales in 1859.
John Rider Roberts (1820 - 1868)
Roberts was a landscape painter, illustrator, surveyor and architect. He was firstly in partnership with Henry Haege as surveyors, civil engineers and architects. One of Roberts’s major artistic activities was 'improving’ the survey plans he and Haege provided for land auctioneers by adding topographical views of the areas up for subdivision. Roberts was closely associated with the Illustrated Sydney News up until his death. He provided many topographical drawings and was head of the art department. Roberts also 'tidied up’ drawings from less competent artists before the woodblocks were made. Roberts seems to have been the last of the many proprietors in partnership with its longstanding engraver, printer and publisher, W.G. Mason. Listed as a painter, architect and surveyor of Hordern Street, Newtown, in 1867, John R. Roberts died of 'dropsy’ on 30 June 1868.
