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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  202
• Lot Description:
  Angas, George French. Six Views of the Gold Field of Ophir, at Summerhill and Lewis’ Ponds Creeks
  Drawn from Nature and on Stone, by George French Angas, author of the following illustrated works: – “The Kafirs,” “Savage Life and Scenes,” “The New Zealanders,” “South Australia,” &c. [wrapper title]. Oblong folio, six tinted lithographed plates, with the leaf of descriptive letterpress, in the original wrappers, respined in cloth, in an old half calf slipcase. Sydney, Published by Woolcott and Clarke, 1851.
• Notes:
  The first illustrated book to record the beginning of the Australian gold rush. On 29 April, 1850, on the prompting of Edmund Hammond Hargraves, the Sydney Morning Herald reported the discovery of gold near Bathurst in a brief announcement. Shortly after Hargraves had announced the discovery of gold at Ophir, Angas hastened from Sydney to Bathurst. He was the first artist to arrive on the goldfield, and Six Views is not only the first pictorial record of the beginning of the Australian gold rushes, it is in fact the only substantial visual record of the relatively short-lived New South Wales goldfields ever to have been published. The lithographs are considered to be among Angas’s most satisfying work. Drawn on the stone by Angas himself, the plates show him, with his expert handling of the lithographic medium, at the peak of his artistic achievement: “these… are among his most successful artistic productions; carefully composed and delicately, but firmly, executed, making expert use of the technical possibilities of the lithographic process to produce a very pleasing pencil like texture, with subtle highlights in the buff-coloured background” (Tregenza). Ferguson, 5996; Wantrup, 239.
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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