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C1884
Suburban Sydney.-Woollahra
Rare engraving from the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News. Image titles: 1. Double Bay, from Ocean Street. 2. Congregational Church, Point Piper Road. 3. Congregational Church, Ocean Street. 4. Darling Point, from New South Head Road. 5. Queen Street, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Suburban Sydney.-Woollahra
Date:
C1884
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
220mm
x 325mm
Frame Size:
450mm
x 580mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1884
Description:
Rare engraving from the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News.
Image titles:
1. Double Bay, from Ocean Street.
2. Congregational Church, Point Piper Road.
3. Congregational Church, Ocean Street.
4. Darling Point, from New South Head Road.
5. Queen Street, from Moncur Street.
6. Point Piper Road.
7. St. Matthais’ Anglican Church School.
Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)
Collingridge was a painter, illustrator and teacher who became staff artist for the Illustrated London News and The Graphic both very successful London newspapers, before emigrating to Australia. He was one of several sons in an old Catholic family from Godington Manor, Oxfordshire. Like his brother George , he mostly dropped the 'de Tourcey’ in Australia. came to Sydney in 1879 where he worked as an illustrator for the Sydney Mail , the Town and Country Journal. He founded the New South Wales Art Society and was staff artist of the Illustrated Sydney News. Collingridge exhibited widely, mainly in New South Wales and was a founding member of the Royal Art Society of NSW 1880.
