C1881

Penal Establishment at St. Helena, Brisb…

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Very rare engraving from the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News. Five kilometres from the mouth of the Brisbane River lies St Helena Island. For more than 60 years from 1867, St Helena was home to many hundreds of … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Penal Establishment at St. Helena, Brisbane River.

Date:

C1881

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

325mm

x 100mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1881

Description:

Very rare engraving from the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.

Five kilometres from the mouth of the Brisbane River lies St Helena Island. For more than 60 years from 1867, St Helena was home to many hundreds of society’s outcasts, for here was located colonial Queensland’s foremost prison for men.

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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