C1886

The Australian Eleven on the Water.

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Colonial cricket related engraving. Titles from top left clockwise:Music on the waters, Two legged race, Cock fighting, The manager at the fancy dress ball, The rifle ranges, Looking back. From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.

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Full Title:

The Australian Eleven on the Water.

Date:

C1886

Artist:

Unknown

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Engraving.

Image Size:

240mm

x 180mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1886

Description:

Colonial cricket related engraving.

Titles from top left clockwise:
Music on the waters, Two legged race, Cock fighting, The manager at the fancy dress ball, The rifle ranges, Looking back.

From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.

Biography:

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.