Steam Ship Sir John Harvey. - Antique Print from 1853

C1853

Steam Ship Sir John Harvey.

Artist:

Rare c.19th engraving of the Sir John Harvey, built at Medford, Massachusetts, in 1852, by the celebrated builder, James O. Curtis and arrived in Sydney in 1853 to service the intercolonial trade. From the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News. … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Steam Ship Sir John Harvey.

Date:

C1853

Artist:

John Rider Roberts (1820 - 1868)

Condition:

Some minor creasing, otherwise in good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

215mm

x 120mm

Paper Size:

242mm

x 140mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1853

Description:

Rare c.19th engraving of the Sir John Harvey, built at Medford, Massachusetts, in 1852, by the celebrated builder, James O. Curtis and arrived in Sydney in 1853 to service the intercolonial trade.

From the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News.

References:
Gibbs & Shallard. Illustrated Sydney News. ISSN 2203-5397.

Collections:
State Library New South Wales: F8/39-40
State Library Victoria: PCINF SLVIC=1853-1872
National Library Australia: Bib ID 440095

John Rider Roberts (1820 - 1868)

Roberts was a landscape painter, illustrator, surveyor and architect. He was firstly in partnership with Henry Haege as surveyors, civil engineers and architects. One of Roberts’s major artistic activities was 'improving’ the survey plans he and Haege provided for land auctioneers by adding topographical views of the areas up for subdivision. Roberts was closely associated with the Illustrated Sydney News up until his death. He provided many topographical drawings and was head of the art department. Roberts also 'tidied up’ drawings from less competent artists before the woodblocks were made. Roberts seems to have been the last of the many proprietors in partnership with its longstanding engraver, printer and publisher, W.G. Mason. Listed as a painter, architect and surveyor of Hordern Street, Newtown, in 1867, John R. Roberts died of 'dropsy’ on 30 June 1868.

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