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C1886
Punt over the Murray River at Barmah.
Colonial engraved view of Barmah, Victoria showing a punt across the Murray River. The Barmah area was first settled in 1856 by Joseph Waldo Rice who established the Murray Fishing Company to supply fish for the gold mining area of … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Punt over the Murray River at Barmah.
Date:
C1886
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
110mm
x 85mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1886
Description:
Colonial engraved view of Barmah, Victoria showing a punt across the Murray River.
The Barmah area was first settled in 1856 by Joseph Waldo Rice who established the Murray Fishing Company to supply fish for the gold mining area of Bendigo. Barmah was, for a time beginning in the early 1880s, a prosperous centre, whose chief industry was sawmilling
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 16439.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 4084242
State Library Victoria: CCF 994.5 V66S
State Library New South Wales: 74Vv5vQ4lxmZ
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.
