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C1887
Riding Through the Blazing Bush.
Artist:
Colonial engraved view of the horrors of bush fires in the Australian bush. References: Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 12842. Collections: National Library Australia: Bib ID 2266945 State Library New South Wales: Call Numbers:TQ076098 State … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Riding Through the Blazing Bush.
Date:
C1887
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
142mm
x 202mm
x 1887mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1887
Description:
Colonial engraved view of the horrors of bush fires in the Australian bush.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 12842.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 2266945
State Library New South Wales: Call Numbers:TQ076098
State Library Victoria: SLT 919.4 C27
State Library South Australia: 919.4 C344
James Hume Nisbet (1849 - 1923)
Scottish-born novelist and artist born in Stirling, Scotland and received special artistic training, and educated under the Rev. Dr. Culross (later of Bristol College) up to the age of fifteen. At 16 years of age he went to Australia and stayed about seven years, during which he travelled to Tasmania, New Zealand, and the South Sea Islands, painting, sketching, writing poetry and stories, and making notes for future work. He spent one year of the period acquiring theatrical experience at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, under the actor Richard Stewart. Nisbet returned to London in 1872, and spent some time in studying and copying pictures in the National Gallery and in South Kensington. At the end of the next year he went back to Scotland and devoted himself to art. For eight years he was art master of the Watt Institution and School of Art, Edinburgh. He travelled in Australia and New Guinea again during 1886, and paid a further visit to Australia in 1895.
