[Hobart from the springs, Mount Wellington, ca. 1858] / George Rowe

DG 1

fonds

ca. 1858

Graphic Materials, Drawings

457557

1 drawing - watercolour - 64 x 157.5 cm (sight) in frame 97 x 180 cm.

George Rowe, artist and lithographer, was baptized on 8 July 1796 at St Sidwell's Parish Church, Exeter, Devon. He won much repute with topographical lithographs of resorts in Cornwall, Somerset, Devon and Sussex. In the early 1850s he left his family in England and travelled to Australia to recoup his fortunes on the Victorian goldfields. He failed as a gold digger and storekeeper but finally succeeded with his water-colours of the Bendigo and Castlemaine diggings. Fifty of his works were exhibited in an art union at Bendigo in 1857, and next year he lithographed a well-known panoramic View of the City of Melbourne, from the Observatory. He returned to England and settled in Exeter and then in 1862 his eight water-colours shown in the Victorian section of the London International Exhibition won him a medal He died at Heavitree, Exeter, on 2 September 1864. -- Australian Dictionary of Biography (Online)

Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales

Work is unsigned and undated
Title on frame: Hobart

Line of Sight: 19th century Australian landscape paintings - State Library of New South Wales (10 March - 27 April, 1997)
Tasmanian vision : the art of nineteenth century Tasmania : paintings, drawings and sculpture from European exploration and settlement to 1900 - Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (January, 1988 - February, 1988)