C1877

The Sydney Metropolitan Exhibition.- Arrival of Country Visitors.

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

$A 225

Rare c.19th hand coloured engraved view of country visitors to the 1877 Exhibition, arriving at the Redfern Railway terminus, where passengers, having alighted, making their way to their various destinations in the city. From the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney … Read Full Description

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S/N: ISN-NS-770428004–221634

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Categories: Sydney, AUSTRALIA, PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHS, TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEWS, SUBJECTS A-Z, Exhibitions International & Colonial

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Full Title:

The Sydney Metropolitan Exhibition.- Arrival of Country Visitors.

Date:

C1877

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size:

327mm

x 228mm

Paper Size:

368mm

x 270mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1877

Description:

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

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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