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C1869
View of Rockingham Bay, Queensland
Artist:
Cook on his charting of the east coast records in his log, ‘…this point I named Point Hillock,’ ( Point Hillock is the east point of Hinchinbrook Island, which is separated from the main by a narrow and tortuous channel.) … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
View of Rockingham Bay, Queensland
Date:
C1869
Artist:
Engraver:
Arthur Levett Jackson
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
290mm
x 110mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1869
Description:
Cook on his charting of the east coast records in his log, ‘…this point I named Point Hillock,’ ( Point Hillock is the east point of Hinchinbrook Island, which is separated from the main by a narrow and tortuous channel.) on account of its Figure. At noon we were by observation in the Latitude of 17 degrees 59 minutes, and abreast of the North point of Rockingham Bay, which bore from us West 2 Miles.
A rare engraving from the original edition of the Illustrated Melbourne Post.
John Rider Roberts (1820 - 1868)
Roberts was a landscape painter, illustrator, surveyor and architect. He was firstly in partnership with Henry Haege as surveyors, civil engineers and architects. One of Roberts’s major artistic activities was 'improving’ the survey plans he and Haege provided for land auctioneers by adding topographical views of the areas up for subdivision. Roberts was closely associated with the Illustrated Sydney News up until his death. He provided many topographical drawings and was head of the art department. Roberts also 'tidied up’ drawings from less competent artists before the woodblocks were made. Roberts seems to have been the last of the many proprietors in partnership with its longstanding engraver, printer and publisher, W.G. Mason. Listed as a painter, architect and surveyor of Hordern Street, Newtown, in 1867, John R. Roberts died of 'dropsy’ on 30 June 1868.
