Title

[lithographs of Knut Bull's painting of Hobart Town distributed in England in muskwood and Huon pine frames]

Author

Secretary of the Royal Society of Tasmania.

Source

Hobart Town Courier (Hobart)

Details

31 May 1859, page 2, column 4.

Publication date

31 May 1859

Type

News

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

In May 1859 the Secretary of the Royal Society of Tasmania reported:
‘…that 53 lithographs of Bull's oil painting of Hobart Town, which was shown at the Paris Exhibition, having been supplemented with statistical details of the colony - its climate, history, population, trade, revenue, educational institutions, rates of wages, land regulations, &c. &c, and neatly enclosed in frames of muskwood and Huon pine, and carefully packed and addressed, have been likewise forwarded by the Harrowby to Messrs. Orgee and Meryon, London, to be by them despatched to mechanics' institutes, reading-rooms, and libraries, and to the chief passenger-offices of the great railway stations in London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c. &c. &c., in order to be there suspended to engage the attention of, and afford information respecting Tasmania, to persons disposed to emigrate from the United Kingdom.

[Hobart Town Courier, 31 May 1859, p.2, col.4.]