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C1846
Scene on the Coorung, near Lake Albert. With the H…
Rare c.19th hand coloured lithograph of George French Angas’s view of the Coorung with one the first images of the recently discovered Toolache wallaby, from the largest and earliest series of lithographs of the infant colony of South Australia. The … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Scene on the Coorung, near Lake Albert. With the Halmaturus Greyii, a new Species of Kangaroo.
Date:
C1846
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph with original hand colouring and gum Arabic highlights.
Image Size:
323mm
x 231mm
Paper Size:
538mm
x 362mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1846
Description:
Rare c.19th hand coloured lithograph of George French Angas’s view of the Coorung with one the first images of the recently discovered Toolache wallaby, from the largest and earliest series of lithographs of the infant colony of South Australia.
The toolache wallaby only survived 85 years after European occupation. First described by George Waterhouse in 1846, the type specimen was collected at Coorong in South Australia. The common name and epithet greyi commemorates the collector and explorer George Grey, who provided the two specimens to researchers at the British Museum of Natural History.The last wild sightings were recorded in 1924, and the last known toolache wallaby survived in captivity until 1939. The species is presumed to be extinct, although extensive research is still being conducted in the region after reports of suspected sightings through the 1970s. However, no members of the species have been sighted since.
Modern binomial: Notamacropus greyi
First described: Waterhouse, 1845
Distribution: SA but extinct
From George French Angas’s, South Australia Illustrated. London.
References:
Gill, T. Bibliography of South Australia. Adelaide. (1886) 1976 : p.16.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 : P.309-316..
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 4457, Volume IV.
Tregenza, J. George French Angas. Artist, Traveller and Naturalist 1822-1886. Adelaide 1980 : ill. front cover +.
Abbey, J.R. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. London 1972: II, 577.
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790 to 1860. Folkstone 1973 : 62.
Colas, R. Bibliographie generale du Costume et de la Mode. Paris 1933 : 133.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 1842283
State Library South Australia: 994.2T A581 d
National Gallery Australia: ACCESSION NUMBER 66.7.3.4
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1070959
University Library Melbourne: 919.42302 ANGA
National Gallery Victoria: Accession Number2011.338
State Library Victoria: RARELTEF 919.42 AN4S
George French Angas (1822 - 1886)
Angas was a painter, lithographer, engraver and naturalist, fourth child and eldest son of George Fife Angas, a merchant and banker. As the eldest son he was expected to join his father's firm, but some months in a London counting house proved a disillusioning experience. In 1841 he took art lessons for four months from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a natural history painter and lithographer, and armed with this instruction set out to see the world. He began in the Mediterranean publishing, A Ramble in Malta and Sicily in the Autumn of 1841.......Illustrated with Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Drawn on the Stone by the Author, the following year. Angas's father had established the South Australian Company in 1836 and had large areas of land as well as banking interests in the province. George French sailed for South Australia in 1843 in the Augustus, arriving in Adelaide on 1st January 1844. Within days he had joined an exploring party selecting runs for the South Australia Company. They traveled through the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Murray River and down to Lake Coorong and Angas sketched views of the countryside, native animals and the customs and dwellings of the Narrinyerri people. Later he drew scenes on his father's land - 28,000 acres in the Barossa Valley - and accompanied George Grey's expedition to the then unknown south-east as unofficial artist. In July 1844 Angas visited New Zealand. Guided by two Maoris, he traveled on foot and by canoe through both islands, painting portraits of Maoris and views. Angas's father died in 1879, leaving a vast estate from which George French received only a annuity of 1000 pounds. In 1884 he went to Dominica on a collecting expedition, finding shells, moths, butterflies and birds. Dogged by rheumatism and neuralgia during his last years, Angas died in London on 4 October 1886.
