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C1884
Station Life.-The Men’s Hut at Night.
Artist:
Very rare engraving of Australian bushlife showing a scene of a group of men playing cards at night. From the original edition of The Australian Graphic. Incredibly, this newspaper used glass for all the engraving plates which the proprietors claimed, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Station Life.-The Men’s Hut at Night.
Date:
C1884
Artist:
Condition:
Repaired minor tears at sheet edges, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Engraving printed from a glass block
Image Size:
342mm
x 235mm
Paper Size:
380mm
x 270mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1884
Description:
Very rare engraving of Australian bushlife showing a scene of a group of men playing cards at night.
From the original edition of The Australian Graphic.
Incredibly, this newspaper used glass for all the engraving plates which the proprietors claimed, reduced the cost by 2/3 from the traditional method of using wood engravings. They stated, that the glass plates didn’t break with the pressure of the printing press, were easy and quick for the artist to create, being able to apply their designs directly onto the glass and that the plates didn’t wear.
Only institution to hold a copy is the State Library of New South Wales.
Charles Edmonds ( - )
Edmonds was an illustrator who worked for the short lived newspaper, The Australian Graphic. He was for a time secretary of the Queensland Art Society, as noted in The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. :Wed 17 Jan 1900 Page 3. ; The society has lost an enthusiastic member by the lamented death of its late hon. secretary, Mr. Charles Edmonds, who will be greatly missed by all the members of the society, whose sincere thanks were due to him for the time he devoted to the society.
