Title

View of Sydney. We have received a copy of a coloured lithograph [produced in London from a drawing by G.F. Angas.

Author

Empire.

Source

Empire

Details

12 March 1853, page 2050, column 1.

Publication date

12 March 1853

Type

Publication Review

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

VIEW OF SYDNEY. – We have received a copy of a coloured lithograph view of Sydney, taken from the vicinity of Vaucluse, which has been executed in London, for Messrs. Woolcott and Clarke. We understand that the enterprising publishers engaged the services of Mr. George French Angas to make the original drawing for this publication in the latter end of 1851. the picture takes in all the prominent points of our magnificent harbour, and the most remarkable public buildings in Sydney ; and in it’s artistic arrangement is characterised by merits of a superior order. The drawing was forwarded ot a London publisher – Mr J. Hogarth – with instructions to have it lithographed in the first style of that delicate art, and carefully coloured, which instructions appear to have been very faithfully carried out. This view of the city and harbour of Sydney cannot fail to prove an acceptable work to the colonists. As a picture it is worthy of the reputation which Mr. Angas enjoys in this realm of art. It is drawn with much care ; the distance is remarkably well kept ; and the delineation of natural objects, peculiar and characteristic, is sustained throughout with a happy skill. Taking the production as a whole, it is unquestionably one of the best, if not the best, pictures of Sydney – Mr Marten’s celebrated view from the North Shore being in rememberance - that have yet been presented to the public. We are informed by the publishers that though Mr. Hogarth’s name appears in the lithograph, it was inserted without their sanction, and that the work is not published in London, the whole of the copies having been recently received by them. We have seen nothing more suitable for a present to friends in Europe – whom it is wished to afford an idea of the Australian metropolis – than this beautifully executed view of Sydney.

[Empire (Sydney), 12 March 1853, p. 2050, col.1.]