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C1884
Views on the Great Northern Railway Line, Gosford to Newcastle.
Rare colonial engraving of of views on the northern railway, New South Wales. 1. General view of Corumbong, Post Office, Church of England and School. 2. Ruggarah Beach, Lake and the Ocean from top of Mount Wyong. 3. Woodbury’s Inn … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Views on the Great Northern Railway Line, Gosford to Newcastle.
Date:
C1884
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
320mm
x 220mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1884
Description:
Rare colonial engraving of of views on the northern railway, New South Wales.
1. General view of Corumbong, Post Office, Church of England and School.
2. Ruggarah Beach, Lake and the Ocean from top of Mount Wyong.
3. Woodbury’s Inn and Bridge over Wyong Creek.
4. Yangy Yangy Public School.
From the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News.
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.
