Ballarat. Distant View from Mount Warrenheip Victoria. Antique print c1889

$80.00

A lovely scene near Ballarat, with two children wearing hats.

Original wood engraving after a sketch by Charles Wilkinson, for “Cassell’s Picturesque Australasia” published in Melbourne circa 1889 by Edward Morris. This engraving would have been printed with black ink on white paper. The paper has aged over the following 130 years, and the engraving has been finely hand-tinted with watercolour at some time.

During 1888 and 1889, Edward Ellis Morris, M.A., Litt.D. (1843-1902) was President of the Professorial Board at the University of Melbourne, where he had a chair in languages. A fine educational reformer, Morris was Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School from 1876 to 1882, and established the prefect system, honour boards, a staff common room, a tuck shop for the boys, decreed no further lock-ups, and with 100 pounds of his own money and matching all other donations, started a fund to build a chapel.

The measurement to the line around the image is 20 x 14cm (8.7/8 x 5.1/2 inches). This engraving is conservation-mounted in antique white board, cellophaned for protection. External measurement for framing would be 33 x 27cm (13 x 10.5/8 inches).