C1886

Port Essington

$A 55

Scarce, c.19th hand coloured engraving of Port Essington, Northern Territory. Port Essington was named by Captain Phillip Parker King on 23 April 1818 after Vice Admiral Sir William Essington, during his survey of the northern Australian coastline. Earlier Dutch navigators … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Port Essington

Date:

C1886

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size: 

120mm 
x 80mm

Paper Size: 

147mm 
x 110mm
AUTHENTICITY
Port Essington - Antique View from 1886

Genuine antique
dated:

1886

Description:

Scarce, c.19th hand coloured engraving of Port Essington, Northern Territory.

Port Essington was named by Captain Phillip Parker King on 23 April 1818 after Vice Admiral Sir William Essington, during his survey of the northern Australian coastline. Earlier Dutch navigators had visited and charted the area during the c.17th. The British established the settlement of Victoria at Port Essington on 27 October 1838 under Captain Sir Gordon Bremer. The British established the settlement of Victoria at Port Essington on 27 October 1838 under Captain Sir Gordon Bremer. It was the third attempt to found a permanent British settlement on Australia’s northern coast, following the abandonment of Fort Dundas on Melville Island (1824–1829) and Fort Wellington at Raffles Bay (1827–1829). The settlement was intended to strengthen British sovereignty, provide a naval station, and encourage trade with Asia.

References:

Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 9829g.
Hughes-d’Aeth, T. Paper Nation : The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australia. Melbourne 2001 :.

Collections:

National Library Australia: Bib ID 1654251
National Gallery Australia: LEGACY ID 34588
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1046852
Getty Museum Los Angeles: Object name: 1218593
State Library New South Wales: RECORD IDENTIFIER 74VvDRQZXzWd
State Library Victoria: CCF 919.4 G19

Albert Henry Fullwood (1863 - 1930)

English artist trained at the Birmingham School of Art before emigrating to Sydney in 1883. He initially worked for John Sands Ltd and as an illustrator for Henry Parkes Garran, while travelling widely across northern Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand. In the 1880s he associated with leading colonial artists, including Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton, and, encouraged by Livingston Hopkins, developed a strong interest in etching. He contributed illustrations to prominent British and Australian periodicals and was active in the Art Society of New South Wales, later helping to establish the Society of Artists.

In 1900 Fullwood relocated abroad, spending a year in New York before settling in London, where he worked as an illustrator and exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français. A member of the Chelsea Arts Club, he served during the World War I with the Allied Arts Corps and later the Royal Army Medical Corps. In 1918 he was appointed an official artist with the Australian Imperial Force in France, depicting the Western Front. Returning to Sydney after demobilisation in 1919, he co-founded the Australian Painter-Etchers’ Society with John Shirlow and became a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute. He died of pneumonia on 1 October 1930.

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