C1879

Thursday Island, Normanby Sound – The Stranding of the S.S.”Ocean”.

$A 145

Rare engraving of Thursday Island showing stranding of S.S.Ocean. From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News. 

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S/N: ISN-QC-790218-009A–229366
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Full Title:

Thursday Island, Normanby Sound – The Stranding of the S.S.”Ocean”.

Date:

C1879

Artist:

Unknown

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size: 

225mm 
x 125mm
AUTHENTICITY
Thursday Island, Normanby Sound - The Stranding of the S.S."Ocean". - Antique View from 1879

Genuine antique
dated:

1879

Description:

Rare engraving of Thursday Island showing stranding of S.S.Ocean.

From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News

Artist:

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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