C1881

The Lunar Eclipse – 6th Inst. – Waiting for teh First Contact. – Scene in Phillip Street, Sydney.

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

$A 225

Family group on their balcony in Phillip Street viewing the partial lunar eclipse that occured in December 1881. A rare engraving from the original edition of the Sydney Illustrated Sydney News.

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Full Title:

The Lunar Eclipse – 6th Inst. – Waiting for teh First Contact. – Scene in Phillip Street, Sydney.

Date:

C1881

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

330mm

x 225mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1881

Description:

Family group on their balcony in Phillip Street viewing the partial lunar eclipse that occured in December 1881.

A rare engraving from the original edition of the Sydney Illustrated Sydney News.

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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