C1883

Parramatta Associations.-The Old Parsona…

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Scarce engraving of St. John’s Parsonage, Parramatta. Originally designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway. The engraving shows the parsonage after the “modern” Victorian renovations completed by real estate developers Mills and Pile in the early 1880s. From the original edition … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Parramatta Associations.-The Old Parsonage Modernized.

Date:

C1883

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

228mm

x 176mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1883

Description:

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.

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