C1890

Port Adelaide in 1844 Sketch by Alexr. Murray

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$A 275

Early view of Port Adelaide as it was in 1844 and known at the time as ‘Port Misery’. Probably based on Samuel Thomas Gill’s watercolour of the same date. From the original edition of the Illustrated Australian News. Collections: State … Read Full Description

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S/N: SA-1890-MURR–385149

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Full Title:

Port Adelaide in 1844 Sketch by Alexr. Murray

Date:

C1890

Artist:

Alexander Murray (1803 - 1880)

Condition:

Small repaired tears on top sheet edge, otherwise in good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

280mm

x 175mm

Paper Size:

327mm

x 210mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1890

Description:

Early view of Port Adelaide as it was in 1844 and known at the time as ‘Port Misery’. Probably based on Samuel Thomas Gill’s watercolour of the same date.

From the original edition of the Illustrated Australian News.

Collections:
State Library South Australia: B 4897 (incorrectly dated as 1844 -photolithography was not used in Australia until 1859 and A. Vaughan not made head of Surveyor General photolithographic department until Frazer Crawfords death on 29th October 1890. )

Alexander Murray (1803 - 1880)

Watercolourist, farmer, politician and manufacturer. Murray arrived in Adelaide in 1840. He purchased 10 acres of land at Coromandel Valley where he established the biscuit and jam factory which traded as Murray & Son. In 1845 he took an exhibition which were mostly his own works (75) to Scotland and then London.

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