Title

Sydney illustrated [by J.S. Prout, 4th and concluding part published].

Author

Author not identified

Source

Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney) 18 April 1831 - ongoing

Details

20 March 1844, page 2, column 4.

Publication date

20 March 1844

Type

Publication Review

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Sydney Illustrated – From an advertisement in our columns today it will be seen that the forth and concluding part of this interesting work is in the course of publication. The views are printed at Hobart Town whither the artist, we understand has gone to superintend them in consequence of the lithographic printer having emigrated to that colony since the last number was published. We have accidentally been favoured with a sight of the impressions of this part, only a few of which have reached Sydney by late arrivals. The views are printed on proper lithographic or plate paper (none of which could be found in the Australian Metropolis), and it is really astonishing how superior they are in appearance to the views in former parts. We could scarcely believe that the difference of materiel could have produced such a difference in the sketches. They almost appear to be the work of a different hand. The two double views of our city give a most correct and favourable picture of its internal appearance and form a very appropriate and interesting conclusion to the work. We shall speak more fully of the work when it is published and cannot help in passing , strongly to recommend it to every one who has a ‘friend or brother’ in the mother country, to whom he may wish to send a valuable present in the shape of a correct likeness of the country of his birth or his adoption. We do not know whether it be the intention of Mr. Prout to return to his colony when ‘Sydney Illustrated’ shall have been completed, or to fix his quarters permanently in Van Diemans Land. If the latter be his intention, we have only to record our sense of the great loss this colony will sustain by his departure and that of Mrs Prout - whose professional talents in the sister arts of painting and music are well known in Sydney; and the great acquisition they must be to the arts of the sister colony.

[Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 1844, p. 2, col. 4.]
 

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