Important Australian + International Fine Art - 28 August 2019 | Sydney
Lot 74
George French Angas (1822 – 1886) And Thomas Shotter Boys
(1803 – 1874) lithographer
THE CITY AND HARBOUR OF SYDNEY FROM NEAR VAUCLUSE, 1852
hand-coloured lithograph
31.5 x 55.5 cm
Estimate:
$4,000 – 6,000
Lot sold: $4,758 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
George French Angas (1822 – 1886) And Thomas Shotter Boys
(1803 – 1874) lithographer
THE CITY AND HARBOUR OF SYDNEY FROM NEAR VAUCLUSE, 1852
hand-coloured lithograph
31.5 x 55.5 cm
Provenance
Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 14 March 1974, lot 360
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne
Exhibited
Australian Paintings and Some Important Prints, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, 27 March – 6 April 1969, cat. 24 (another example)
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 1 – 14 September 1982, cat. 8 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, another example)
Literature
‘Fine Arts for England’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 2 April 1853, p. 1
Tregenza, J., George French Angas. Artist Trail Traveller and Naturalist 1822 – 1886, 1980, cat. 51, p. 83 (illus., another example)