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C1867
The Floods on the Hawkesbury – A street scen…
Very rare colonial engraving of rescue boats at night during the 1867 floods on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. From the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News.
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Full Title:
The Floods on the Hawkesbury – A street scene.
Date:
C1867
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
223mm
x 150mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1867
Description:
Very rare colonial engraving of rescue boats at night during the 1867 floods on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales.
From the original edition of 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
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.
