Australia, Port Essington, c1886

Regular price $50.00 Sale

Original from Garran's The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia

Date: c1886

Artist: Fullwood, Arthur Henry

Publisher: Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co, Sydney

Paper Size: 105 x 130m

Condition: good

Technique: Wood Engraving

Price: $50

Description: Wood Engraving with later hand colouring

Provenance:

The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia

Published in Sydney in 1886-88, the enormous, multi-volume 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' was an attempt with words and pictures to describe the Australia of the time.

Its publication was one of the most significant cultural projects in 19th-century Australia. Writers, artists, academics, and politicians came together to prepare a book of unprecedented grandeur and ambition, and a publishing company was established to publish it. The 1100+ engravings on steel and wood contained in the Picturesque Atlas were among the finest engravings to be found anywhere in the world at this time, and many of the illustrations were specially commissioned works by leading Australian artists of the era, for the publication.

A unique and valuable historical record of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.

Biography:

Fulwood Albert Henry

Albert Henry Fullwood (1863-1930), artist, was born on 15 March 1863 at Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, son of Frederick John Fullwood, jeweller, and his wife Emma, née Barr. From 15, Henry, as he was known, attended Birmingham Institute on a scholarship. On completing his studies he migrated to Sydney in 1883.

Employed first by John Sands Ltd, Fullwood worked as a black and white artist for the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia in 1883-86. He travelled extensively, including visits to Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Palmerston (Darwin), Port Moresby, New Guinea, and later New Zealand.