Prints of Australian Retrospect Christmas cards, 1699-1869, drawn ca. 1977 / engraving and printing by Kenneth E.I. Wallace-Crabbe, ca. 1977

PXB 566

fonds

not after September 1977

Graphic Materials, Ephemera

908845

7 prints (Christmas cards) - coloured - 10 x 22 cm.

Each card is titled Australian Retrospect and depicts early settlement in Sydney and Melbourne.

1. First Englishman to land in Australia. Captain William Dampier at Shark's Bay, on his 1699 second visit.

2. East coast discovered. At 6 a.m. April 19, 1770, Mr Hicks, Captain cook's first lieutenant, sights Gippsland beaches and 'Cape Hicks".

3. Port Phillip Bay 1803. Lt. Colonel Collins & Captain Woodriff spend days in H.M.S. 'Calcutta's' boats, visiting Arthur's Seat, Indented Head, and Swan Island, then start a settlement at Sorrento.

4. 1835. Parramatta-born John Batman sails from Tasmania to Port Phillip. On Yarra River he picks site of Melbourne as 'place for a village'.

5. 1837. Yarra Yarra Wurundjeri tribesmen find white people settling in river valleys near Eltham, and with such startling possessions as cattle, horses, and sheep.

6. 1869. In famous era of the clipper ships, when Sydney Harbour was known as 'Port of Happy Return'.

7. Our first troops. Men of the New South Wales Regiment, ('Rum' Corps') sing Christmas Carols in George Street, Sydney.

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
Copyright holder:: Kenneth E.I. Wallace-Crabbe
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Kenneth E.I. Wallace - Crabbe

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Signed R. Wallace-Crabbe in bottom left hand corner.

Cards 3-4, 6-7 are stamped on reverse: Colour engravings and hand-print, K. Wallace-Crabbe O.B.E., North Warrandyte, 3113.

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