C1869

[Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition]

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Rare c.19th engraving of exhibitors at the 1869 Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition held at Alfred Park, Surrey Hills. Exhibitors depicted; 1. Colonial Soap Trophy. 2. Colonial Sugar Trophy. 3. Rustic Shed, with Seed and Floral Exhibits. 4. Portable Gas-works. 5. Western … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

[Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition]

Date:

C1869

Artist:

Arthur Levett Jackson (1834 - 1888)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Engraving.

Image Size:

175mm

x 237mm

Paper Size:

183mm

x 255mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1869

Description:

Rare c.19th engraving of exhibitors at the 1869 Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition held at Alfred Park, Surrey Hills.

Exhibitors depicted;

1. Colonial Soap Trophy.
2. Colonial Sugar Trophy.
3. Rustic Shed, with Seed and Floral Exhibits.
4. Portable Gas-works.
5. Western Kerosene Co.-Blocks of Shale.

From 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

Arthur Levett Jackson (1834 - 1888)

Documentary detail on Jackson’s personal life is comparatively sparse, a common situation for c.19th engravers, whose labour underpinned illustrated publishing but who rarely received the individual attention given to painters or draughtsmen. What can be reconstructed places him firmly within the skilled artisan class that supported Sydney’s expanding print culture in the mid to late Victorian period.

Born in 1834, likely in Britain, Jackson would have served a formal apprenticeship in wood engraving, a trade demanding precision, patience, and close collaboration with publishers. Training involved mastering engraving tools (burins and gravers), working on dense end-grain boxwood blocks, and learning to translate tonal wash drawings into systems of line, hatch, and stipple. Such training suggests a background in an urban craft environment rather than an academic art school.

His migration to New South Wales probably occurred during the great waves of skilled British emigration to Australia in the 1850s–60s, when the colonial press was expanding rapidly.

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