Title

The fine arts. [Views of New South Wales: J, Carmichael has engraved five of the six views].

Author

Australian.

Source

Australian (Sydney)

Details

13 March 1829, page 3, column 3.

Publication date

13 March 1829

Type

Publication Review

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

THE FINE ARTS
Five out of the six select views of Sydney, engraved by that forward young artist, Mr Carmichael, and which he purposes publishing by subscription, are already completed. The undertaking is deserving of general notice, and more particularly the marked support of every admirer of ingenuity and the fine art. The artist has exhibited a good taste in the selection of a majority of his views, as he has exhibited no inconsiderable skill in their execution. Independent of either, the consideration that this young artist is not only deaf, but also dumb, should interest the Public in his favour. A fac simile of one of his views, taken from Wollomooloo Hill, lays now at our office with a prospectus of the work, and a list of subscriptions, for which we solicit the contribution of all persons who love to encourage merit. For the prospectus to the work, we beg to refer our readers to the advertisement which appears in another page. The price asked for the six views, it will be seen, is only four dollars – a remuneration scarcely commensurate with the expence, time, and labor, which must necessarily be bestowed upon them by the artist. However, people may make amends by selling their names down for an additional number of copies.

[Australian (Sydney), 13 March 1829, p.3, col.3.]