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C1881
The Adelaide International Exhibition.- Views of Port Adelaide.
Titles from top clockwise Steam Wharf Railway Station Export Wharf Government Buildings Rare engraving from the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News, which was published from 1853 to 1889 included a number of high quality engravings to illustrate the … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Adelaide International Exhibition.- Views of Port Adelaide.
Date:
C1881
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Image Size:
225mm
x 227mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1881
Description:
Titles from top clockwise Steam Wharf Railway Station Export Wharf Government Buildings Rare engraving from the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News, which was published from 1853 to 1889 included a number of high quality engravings to illustrate the accompanying news and articles. It was issued on a monthly basis, due to the time consuming process of engraving each illustration which would take an engraver between one and two weeks to make each one. Due to their ephemeral nature few have survived.
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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