THE CITY AND HARBOUR OF SYDNEY FROM NEAR VAUCLUSE, 1852

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
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
Sold for $4,758 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
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)