C1866

The Burning Mountain (Mount Wingen), nea…

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Rare colonial engraving of Burning Mountain (Mount Wingen) named for a smouldering coal seam running underground through the sandstone. From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News. Collections: State Library New South Wales: TN115 State Library Victoria: RARENSL N.S.W. … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

The Burning Mountain (Mount Wingen), near Murrurundi, New South Wales.

Date:

C1866

Artist:

John Rider Roberts (1820 - 1868)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

280mm

x 240mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1866

Description:

Rare colonial engraving of Burning Mountain (Mount Wingen) named for a smouldering coal seam running underground through the sandstone.

From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.

Collections:
State Library New South Wales: TN115
State Library Victoria: RARENSL N.S.W. 1875

John Rider Roberts (1820 - 1868)

Roberts was a landscape painter, illustrator, surveyor and architect. He was firstly in partnership with Henry Haege as surveyors, civil engineers and architects. One of Roberts’s major artistic activities was 'improving’ the survey plans he and Haege provided for land auctioneers by adding topographical views of the areas up for subdivision. Roberts was closely associated with the Illustrated Sydney News up until his death. He provided many topographical drawings and was head of the art department. Roberts also 'tidied up’ drawings from less competent artists before the woodblocks were made. Roberts seems to have been the last of the many proprietors in partnership with its longstanding engraver, printer and publisher, W.G. Mason. Listed as a painter, architect and surveyor of Hordern Street, Newtown, in 1867, John R. Roberts died of 'dropsy’ on 30 June 1868.

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