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C1893
S.S. ‘Ormuz’
Artist:
Andrew MacLure
Colonial lithograph of the S.S. Ormuz. In 1883 The Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., of London signed a contract with the Government of New South Wales to carry emigrants from the United Kingdom. The Company was to be paid £15 … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
S.S. ‘Ormuz’
Date:
C1893
Artist:
Andrew MacLure
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph with one tint.
Image Size:
170mm
x 126mm
Paper Size:
202mm
x 160mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1893
Description:
Colonial lithograph of the S.S. Ormuz.
In 1883 The Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., of London signed a contract with the Government of New South Wales to carry emigrants from the United Kingdom. The Company was to be paid £15 per head for up to four hundred persons and £14 and 10 Shillings for numbers between four and six hundred persons per voyage. She was officially launched on September 29, 1886 and after her fit-out and trials were completed, on December 29, 1886 she was registered at Glasgow in the ownership of the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., London, named the “Ormuz.” She was then officially handed over to the Orient Line at Tilbury.
Artist:
Andrew Maclure and Archibald Gray MacDonald set up business as engravers and lithographic printers in 1835. Their first premises were in Trongate but by 1851 they had moved to 57 Buchanan Street, and later relocated to a 5-storey purpose-built facility. The company became Printers to the Queen They invented a power-driven lithographic printing press in 1853.
