C1878

Mundarrah Towers, Little Coogee Bay, Near Sydney.

Very rare engraving of Clovelly from the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News.  The Mundarrah Towers was a huge estate built for Dr Dickson in the 1860s. Samuel Bennett, who owned Australian Town and Country Journal, one of the most … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Mundarrah Towers, Little Coogee Bay, Near Sydney.

Date:

C1878

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size: 

223mm 
x 165mm
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Mundarrah Towers, Little Coogee Bay, Near Sydney. - Antique Print from 1878

Genuine antique
dated:

1878

Description:

Very rare engraving of Clovelly from the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News

The Mundarrah Towers was a huge estate built for Dr Dickson in the 1860s. Samuel Bennett, who owned Australian Town and Country Journal, one of the most influential newspapers of the day, bought the property and made further grand additions. The Towers was demolished in 1926, to make way for suburban development. The Mundarrah Towers estate occupied the land around Burnie Street overlooking the western end of Clovelly Bay. 

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.

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