C1884

Proclaiming a British Protectorate, Port Moresby, New Guinea.

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Rare engraving recording Commodore Erskine proclaiming a British protectorate in 1884. From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.

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S/N: ISN-PI-NG-841125016B–388527
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Full Title:

Proclaiming a British Protectorate, Port Moresby, New Guinea.

Date:

C1884

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size: 

203mm 
x 151mm
AUTHENTICITY
Proclaiming a British Protectorate, Port Moresby, New Guinea. - Antique View from 1884

Genuine antique
dated:

1884

Description:

Rare engraving recording Commodore Erskine proclaiming a British protectorate in 1884.

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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