Yengarie Sugar Plantation, near Maryborough, Queensland. - Antique View from 1884
C1884

Yengarie Sugar Plantation, near Maryboro…

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Rare colonial engraving of Yengarie Sugar Plantation at Old Mill Road, Yengarie, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland. The ruins remain of the Sugar Refinery on Graham’s Creek at Yengarie  which began operations for the firm of Tooth and Cran in the 1860s. … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Yengarie Sugar Plantation, near Maryborough, Queensland.

Date:

C1884

Artist:

Arthur Collingridge de Tourcey (1853 - 1907)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured engraving.

Image Size: 

201mm 
x 150mm
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Yengarie Sugar Plantation, near Maryborough, Queensland. - Antique View from 1884

Genuine antique
dated:

1884

Description:

Rare colonial engraving of Yengarie Sugar Plantation at Old Mill Road, Yengarie, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland. The ruins remain of the Sugar Refinery on Graham’s Creek at Yengarie  which began operations for the firm of Tooth and Cran in the 1860s. It produced meat extract before working as a sugar mill and then as a major refinery that serviced many plantations and mills in the area before closing in 1899.

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.

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