Title: Kangaroo Point, Brisbane
Artist/Creator: James Charles Armytage (1802? or c.1820-1897)
Date: [ca. 1873]
Notes: Engraving made from a photograph by James Charles Armytage, of Kangaroo Point, Brisbane.
Looking from the New Farm end of Bowen Terrace, across Kangaroo Point, Brisbane River and the Botanic Gardens, to the newly completed Parliament House building which opened in 1868 - suggesting the photograph was taken in Brisbane in 1869-70, and provided to Armytage by Richard Daintree, Agent-General for Queensland in London from 1872.
James Charles Armytage
"James Charles Armytage" was an engraver and printmaker. He regularly engraved drawings by John Ruskin for publication in Ruskin’s books, who regularly praised and thanked Armytage for his "consummate skill and patience" in carrying out the work for him, and described his works as "lovely" and "magnificent".
It is interesting to note that no other record of "James Charles Armytage" exists. Armytage appears only as "J. C. Armytage" in works and the name may have been mistaken for John Carr Armytage, a landscape engraver (1802-1897).
Provenance: "Australia" vol. II, 1873; Edwin Carton Booth F.R.C.I. with drawings by (John) Skinner Prout, N. (Nicholas) Chevalier, &c. &c.
Author: Edwin Carton Booth
Contributor: John Skinner Prout (1805-1876)
Contributor: Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902)
Date of Publication: 1873
Volume: II
Publisher: Virtue & Co
Place of Publishing: London
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
Courtesy: The British Library
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