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C1847
Waungerri Lake and the Marble Range. Westward of Port Lincoln.
George French Angas’s beautiful lithographed view of Waungerri Lake (Wangary) and Marble Range, South Australia with native trees, kangaroos and black swans on the Lake. Angas’s description; About thirty miles to the North and West of Port Lincoln, there is … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Waungerri Lake and the Marble Range. Westward of Port Lincoln.
Date:
C1847
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
335mm
x 245mm
Paper Size:
540mm
x 360mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1847
Description:
George French Angas’s beautiful lithographed view of Waungerri Lake (Wangary) and Marble Range, South Australia with native trees, kangaroos and black swans on the Lake.
Angas’s description; About thirty miles to the North and West of Port Lincoln, there is a rich and beautiful country, as yet but little known, having several fine lakes of water, and luxuriant pasture-land scattered with park-like trees; beyond these lakes rise two distinct ranges of lofty and abrupt hills; the Marble range which is shewn in the opposite plate, and the hills known as Albert’s Peak, which lie further to the north. Mount Dutton is represented on the left of the engraving, and Mount Greenly nearly in the centre of the picture. Waungerri is the native name for the largest lake, which abounds in black-swan and other waterfowl: kangaroos, emus, and a variety of smaller game are still numerous in the surrounding country, which is unoccupied by settlers. In a few years, no doubt, all this district will be thickly settled and cultivated; the margin of Waungerri Lake presents an enticing spot for a settler’s homestead; and should I ever again visit this locality, the sights and sounds of civilization and busy industry, will no doubt have taken the place of the kangaroo feeding silently, and the roaming savage stealing through nature’s wilderness, in search of a scanty subsistence from its spontaneous produce.
From George French Angas’s, South Australia Illustrated.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: Volume IV, 4457.
Gill, T. Bibliography of South Australia. Adelaide. (1886) 1976 :: P.16.
Tregenza, J. George French Angas. Artist, Traveller and Naturalist 1822-1886. Adelaide 1980 ::.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney, 1987 :: P.309-316.
Collections:
National Gallery Australia: NGA 66.7.4.2
State Library South Australia: B 15276/20
National Library Australia: Bib ID 320158
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: Volume IV, 4457.
Gill, T. Bibliography of South Australia. Adelaide. (1886) 1976 :: P.16.
Tregenza, J. George French Angas. Artist, Traveller and Naturalist 1822-1886. Adelaide 1980 ::.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney, 1987 :: P.309-316.
Collections:
National Gallery Australia: NGA 66.7.4.2
State Library South Australia: B 15276/20
National Library Australia: Bib ID 320158
George French Angas (1822 - 1886)
Angas was a painter, lithographer, engraver and naturalist, fourth child and eldest son of George Fife Angas, a merchant and banker. As the eldest son he was expected to join his father's firm, but some months in a London counting house proved a disillusioning experience. In 1841 he took art lessons for four months from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a natural history painter and lithographer, and armed with this instruction set out to see the world. He began in the Mediterranean publishing, A Ramble in Malta and Sicily in the Autumn of 1841.......Illustrated with Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Drawn on the Stone by the Author, the following year. Angas's father had established the South Australian Company in 1836 and had large areas of land as well as banking interests in the province. George French sailed for South Australia in 1843 in the Augustus, arriving in Adelaide on 1st January 1844. Within days he had joined an exploring party selecting runs for the South Australia Company. They traveled through the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Murray River and down to Lake Coorong and Angas sketched views of the countryside, native animals and the customs and dwellings of the Narrinyerri people. Later he drew scenes on his father's land - 28,000 acres in the Barossa Valley - and accompanied George Grey's expedition to the then unknown south-east as unofficial artist. In July 1844 Angas visited New Zealand. Guided by two Maoris, he traveled on foot and by canoe through both islands, painting portraits of Maoris and views. Angas's father died in 1879, leaving a vast estate from which George French received only a annuity of 1000 pounds. In 1884 he went to Dominica on a collecting expedition, finding shells, moths, butterflies and birds. Dogged by rheumatism and neuralgia during his last years, Angas died in London on 4 October 1886.
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James William Giles (1801 - 1870)
Giles was a painter and lithographer born in Glasgow , the son of a designer at the local calico. The family moved to Aberdeen around 1805 where his father worked in a printing factory at Aberdeen and was an artist of some repute. His father's early death threw his son at an early age upon his own resources and at 13 he maintained himself, his mother and sister by painting, and before he was 20 was teaching private classes in Aberdeen. At 21 he married a widow Clementina Farquharson. He then became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy and elected to the council of the Spalding Club. He first exhibited at the "Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland", and in 1829 became an academician of the Royal Scottish Academy, and contributed numerous works to its exhibitions from that time until near the close of his career. He also exhibited frequently at the British Institution in London, and occasionally at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists.
