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C1883
Returning from the New Year’s Day Tattersall’s Meeting, at Randwick.
Scarce colonial engraving of a boisterous crowd returning from the Randwick races on New Years Day.. From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News. Collections: National Library Australia: Bib ID 440095 State Library New South Wales: DSM/F079.9441/2 State Library … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Returning from the New Year’s Day Tattersall’s Meeting, at Randwick.
Date:
C1883
Condition:
Minor creasing, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
305mm
x 205mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1883
Description:
Scarce colonial engraving of a boisterous crowd returning from the Randwick races on New Years Day..
From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 440095
State Library New South Wales: DSM/F079.9441/2
State Library Victoria: CINF SLVIC=1853-1872-RARENSL N.S.W.
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.
