Bathurst, New South Wales Australian Antique Print

by Garran, Andrew

Interesting antique print of Bathurst, New South Wales, c1886.

Original wood engraving c1886 (with later colour) after a sketch by the eminent English artist Albert Henry Fullwood (1863-1930), for Picturesque Atlas of Australasia which was published between 1886 and 1888 to commemorate 100 years since First Fleet arrival at Port Jackson in 1788.

A.H. Fullwood attended Birmingham Institute on a scholarship and on completing his studies migrated to Sydney in 1883. Fullwood worked for John Sands publishers in Sydney, and then as an illustrator for The Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company. Between 1883 and 1886 he travelled extensively throughout Australia. Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. In the 1880s he was one of a number of prominent colonial landscape artists. Fullwood contributed drawings to the English illustrated newspapers The Graphic, and Black and White, as well as to the Australian Town and Country Journal, The Bulletin, Illustrated Sydney News and the Sydney Mail. He was an active member of the Art Society of New South Wales from 1884, and was active in setting up the breakaway Society of Artists.

After returning to England A.H. Fullwood worked as a colourist. He joined the army and was demobilized on 31 December 1919. Fullwood returned to Sydney, where he and John Shirlow founded the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society, and Fullwood became a member of the Australian Water-Colour Institute.

This engraving is mounted between 'antique white' conservation matboards with protective cellophane cover. Size of engraving is16 x 25cm (6.5 x 10 inches). External size of mount for framing is 32 x 40cm (12.5 x 16 inches).