a Prix Discount Antiquarian Print Shop Australia, Point Danger And Mt Warning, C1886

Original from Garran’s The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia

Situated on the border of New South Wales and Queensland

Date: c1886

Artist: Fullwood, Albert Henry

Publisher: Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co, Sydney

Paper Size: 190 x 100mm

Condition: good

Technique: Wood Engraving

Price: $60

Description: Wood Engraving with later hand colouring

Provenance:

Situated on the NSW/Qld border, on a peak overlooking Duranbah Beach which is popular for surfing. Point Danger was named by Captain James Cook on his 1770 journey up the east coast of Australia to warn later mariners of dangerous coral reefs off this treacherous coast.Point Danger is a headland, located at Coolangatta on the southern end of the Gold Coast on the east coast of Australia. Separated by Snapper Rocks and Rainbow Bay to the west, with Duranbah Beach and the Tweed River mouth to the south, present-day Point Danger has also indicated the border between New South Wales and Queensland, Australia, since 1863

The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 

Published in Sydney in 1886-88, the enormous, multi-volume ‘Picturesque Atlas of Australasia‘ was an attempt with words and pictures to describe the Australia of the time.

Its publication was one of the most significant cultural projects in 19th-century Australia. Writers, artists, academics, and politicians came together to prepare a book of unprecedented grandeur and ambition, and a publishing company was established to publish it. The 1100+ engravings on steel and wood contained in the Picturesque Atlas were among the finest engravings to be found anywhere in the world at this time, and many of the illustrations were specially commissioned works by leading Australian artists of the era, for the publication.A unique and valuable historical record of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.

To read about The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia click here.

To read about Fullwood, Albert Henry click here.