Mount Araphilas, Victoria. Mount Arapiles engraving. Nicholas Chevalier c1874.

by Chevalier, Nicholas

Antique Print of Mt Arapiles rock formation that rises to around 140 metres (460 feet) above the Wimmera Plains in western Victoria.

Original steel engraving by Samuel Bradshaw (1810-1888), (signed N. Chevalier 1872) from a sketch by Russian-born artist Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902), for Edwin Carton Booth's Australia, Illustrated with Drawings by Skinner Prout, Chevalier, Armytage and others, published in London in 1874 by Virtue & Co. This is wonderful series of views recording colonial life in Australia.

Nicholas Chevalier arrived in Australia in 1855. Chevalier's brother was manager of the vineyards at Bontharambo on the Ovens River in Victoria. Chevalier worked as an illustrator in Melbourne, while he developed his skill in landscape painting. This fine antique print was published in London circa 1874 by Virtue & Co. for a series of illustrations recording life in colonial Australia.

This antique print has fine later hand-colour. It is in good condition, with wide borders as published. Page size is 215 x 270mm (8 x 10 3/4 inches). Engraving measures approximately 120 x 185mm (4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches).