ANIMALS AUSTRALIAN VARIOUS

Flying Fox

Frank Prout Mahony was a painter of outback subjects in typical colonial style. He studied at the NSW Academy of Art and taught at the Royal Art Society School. He unfortunately died in obscurity.

This engraving is from the Picturesque Atlas of Australasian which was the most ambitious publishing venture in Australian history up to the 1900's. It was conceived and financed by American publishers under the name of the Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co Limited, Sydney and Melbourne. It's ambitious aims of using the best artists, the best paper, the finest printing engraving techniques and for it to be the most comprehensive survey of Australia's colonial history ensured that it inevitably was doomed to be a financial failure. The legacy that it left on the other hand was some of the finest engravings and maps printed in Australia in the C19th.

Hatherell studied at the Royal Academy Schools (RA) 1877–9. He exhibited at the R.A. and R.oyal Watercolour Scoiety (WS) from 1879, showing portraits, genre and illustrations. He worked for Cassell's the publishers, who sent him to Australia to illustrate Picturesque Australasia. He also worked for The Graphic, and for American magazines.

A good early Hamblin oil.

References;

artist is listed in the following standard biographical references:

Germaine, Page 282


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The Banded Hare-wallaby (or Munning), Lagostrophus fasciatus, is an endangered mammal native to south-western Australia. Once common across southern Western Australia, Banded Hare-wallabies are now extinct on the mainland due to loss of habitat through agriculture, competition for food with introduced livestock and rabbits, and predation from introduced feral animals. They are now found on Bernier and Dorre Islands in Shark Bay.