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C1847
The Kapunda Copper Mine.
The most historical and largest printed image of Kapunda copper mine by George French Angas. In 1842, Francis Dutton and Charles Bagot, both sheep farmers in the area, stumbled upon exposed copper ore deposits. They acquired 80 acres around this … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Kapunda Copper Mine.
Date:
C1847
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
325mm
x 210mm
Paper Size:
431mm
x 335mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1847
Description:
The most historical and largest printed image of Kapunda copper mine by George French Angas.
In 1842, Francis Dutton and Charles Bagot, both sheep farmers in the area, stumbled upon exposed copper ore deposits. They acquired 80 acres around this discovery and initiated mining operations in early 1844 after favourable assay results. The mining endeavour commenced by extracting surface ore and transitioned to subterranean mining by year’s end. Mining continued until 1879.
From George French Angas’s, South Australia Illustrated. London.
References:
Gill, T. Bibliography of South Australia. Adelaide. (1886) 1976 : p.16.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney 1987 : P.309-316..
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 4457, Volume IV.
Tregenza, J. George French Angas. Artist, Traveller and Naturalist 1822-1886. Adelaide 1980 : ill. front cover +.
Abbey, J.R. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. London 1972: II, 577.
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790 to 1860. Folkstone 1973 : 62.
Colas, R. Bibliographie generale du Costume et de la Mode. Paris 1933 : 133.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 1842283
State Library South Australia: 994.2T A581 d
National Gallery Australia: ACCESSION NUMBER 66.7.3.4
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1070959
University Library Melbourne: 919.42302 ANGA
National Gallery Victoria: Accession Number2011.338
State Library Victoria: RARELTEF 919.42 AN4S
George French Angas (1822 - 1886)
Angas was a painter, lithographer, engraver and naturalist, fourth child and eldest son of George Fife Angas, a merchant and banker. As the eldest son he was expected to join his father's firm, but some months in a London counting house proved a disillusioning experience. In 1841 he took art lessons for four months from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a natural history painter and lithographer, and armed with this instruction set out to see the world. He began in the Mediterranean publishing, A Ramble in Malta and Sicily in the Autumn of 1841.......Illustrated with Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Drawn on the Stone by the Author, the following year. Angas's father had established the South Australian Company in 1836 and had large areas of land as well as banking interests in the province. George French sailed for South Australia in 1843 in the Augustus, arriving in Adelaide on 1st January 1844. Within days he had joined an exploring party selecting runs for the South Australia Company. They traveled through the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Murray River and down to Lake Coorong and Angas sketched views of the countryside, native animals and the customs and dwellings of the Narrinyerri people. Later he drew scenes on his father's land - 28,000 acres in the Barossa Valley - and accompanied George Grey's expedition to the then unknown south-east as unofficial artist. In July 1844 Angas visited New Zealand. Guided by two Maoris, he traveled on foot and by canoe through both islands, painting portraits of Maoris and views. Angas's father died in 1879, leaving a vast estate from which George French received only a annuity of 1000 pounds. In 1884 he went to Dominica on a collecting expedition, finding shells, moths, butterflies and birds. Dogged by rheumatism and neuralgia during his last years, Angas died in London on 4 October 1886.
