Circular Quay, Sydney Harbour. Early shipping in colonial Australia

by Garran, Andrew

Heritage Editions print of Shipping and Circular Quay, Sydney Harbour, in 1886.

This is a reproduction, printed from a hand-coloured wood engraving by J. Hellawell after a sketch by New York-born artist Frederick B. Schell (1838-1905), from his 1884-1888 travels around Australia. At the age of 29 Schell was commissioned to select the illustrations for Picturesque Atlas of Australasia published in Sydney between 1886 and 1888 to commemorate 100 years of settlement since the First Fleet arrived in Sydney in 1788, and to provide a graphic summary of Australia’s development.

Print size: 16 x 28cm (6.5 x 11 inches).