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C1866
View of the Araluen Valley Gold Fields.
Engraving of the Araluen Valley, New South Wales where gold was discovered 1851. From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
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Full Title:
View of the Araluen Valley Gold Fields.
Date:
C1866
Engraver:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
343mm
x 237mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1866
Description:
Engraving of the Araluen Valley, New South Wales where gold was discovered 1851.
From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.
Collections:
State Library New South Wales: F8/39-40
State Library Victoria: PCINF SLVIC=1872-1881
State Library New South Wales: F8/39-40
State Library Victoria: PCINF SLVIC=1872-1881
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.
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Samuel Calvert (1828 - 1913)
Samuel Calvert (1828-1913) English painter and engraver who moved to Adelaide after his older brothers John and William migrated to South Australia in 1843. By 1850 Calvert had set up on his own account in King William Street then then moved to Melbourne as an engraver in 1853. He was a prolific and left a large body of work.
