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  • Archival limited Edition Giclee, Maritime, “Port Adelaide c.1882”, South Australia.
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  • Port Adelaide harbor full of Tall ship masts in 1882
  • Row boats ready form service b migrants, seaman, merchants.
  • Through the masts we can the storehouses ready to take in imports or unload wheat, wool, copper and other wares.

port adelaide south australia tallships migrants trade giclee

$98.00

Product Description

Maritime, Port Adelaide c.1882, Louis Henn & Co, Currie Street, Adelaide, SA, Tallships, Settlers, commerce, giclee

Archival Limited Edition giclee on 100% cotton paper after the original double-tint lithograph published by Henn & Co. for his series titled “Twenty-one miscellaneous Views of Adelaide", 76 Currie Street, Adelaide c.1882 -1884.

Issued with a limited edition numbered /300 certificate.

Size of image = 32.5cm x 24.5 cm (13 x 9 3/4 inch)

Port Adelaide, South Australia

The scene shows at least 25 masts of sloops, cutters, schooners, clippers, yachts, carrying migrant and trade goods, six miles from the town center of Adelaide. A cluster of empty tenders (rowboats) await use in the foreground. The Port of this planned colony was an integral part of Surveyor General, Colonel William Light’s plan to lay out a functional, healthy settlement for this prototype British freely settled experiment of South Australia. Light had taken up Captain John Finlay Duff's offer to use his ship, the Africaine, to search for the best location of the city, and an accessible port was essential. (Duff, on his return to London, christened his daughter Charlotte Light Duff, such was his regard for the embattled Colonel William Light)

Louis Henn & Company

Louis Henn first set up in Hobart, Tasmania in 1877. He then moved his lithographic printing house to Adelaide South Australia in 1882. Until 1885 he was located at 76 Currie Street. illustrating features of this 50-year-old colony in the city and hinterland. From 1886 the business relocated to Gouger St. As the series was undesignated as to artist and/or lithographer I had assumed he had taken on both duties. Then a client informed me that her husband’s ancestor, Frederick Sear, had been the lithographer. He had bought into the business but left after “the Burn’s note” and “Krug Label” incidents. I have since pulled that intriguing string and it has a most surprising ending in Auckland Art Gallery.

 

 

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Shipwrecks of Port Adelaide (13:26)
A short video of the rich collection of shipwrecks abandoned in the Port River system of Port Adelaide South Australia Below is a link to an interesting story of the ship owner of the Dorthy H Sterling one of the abandoned ships in the North Arm The story of a family who experienced the high life and had it snatched away, and of a man whose undying passion for the great sailing ships was crushed by financial ruin as his beloved fleet, one by one, fell victim to merciless seas and the Great Depression. http://www.nicolecama.com.au/project/the-sterlings/
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Other Details

South Australia:
Port Adelaide
Maritime:
Tallships
Colonel William Light:
Adelaide

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  1. UNULJVSAs 4 Star Review

    Posted by on 9th Sep 2011

    Any Port is a colonial settlement's lifeline. Now I live at Port Adelaide it is great to see how it was. Thanks, I love this print.

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