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C1884
Wooden Bridge on the Sydney Road, Near B…
Rare, c.19th hand coloured engraving of the old wooden bridge at Berrima. Contemporary account of the bridge at Berrima. The Bridge on the Berrima road is situated about two hundred yards from the gaol, and is one of the earliest … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Wooden Bridge on the Sydney Road, Near Berrima.
Date:
C1884
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
227mm
x 175mm
Paper Size:
250mm
x 203mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1884
Description:
Rare, c.19th hand coloured engraving of the old wooden bridge at Berrima.
Contemporary account of the bridge at Berrima.
The Bridge on the Berrima road is situated about two hundred yards from the gaol, and is one of the earliest and best specimens of what engineering talent has done with the indigenous woods of New South Wales.
From the original edition of The Illustrated Sydney News.
References:
Gibbs & Shallard. Illustrated Sydney News. ISSN 2203-5397.
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.
