1920s Antique Hardy Wilson collotype print "Davey St" Tasmania, Architecture, framed art

Authentic 1920's antique collotype print on thick quality paper after eminent Australian architect and artist William Hardy Wilson. Wilson contributed 50 finely detailed drawings to the lavish publication Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania (Sydney, 1924); the printing was executed by Max Jaffe in Vienna. A rarely offered piece, framed with simple carved antique solid wood and custom mount behind glass. Excellent condition as shown.

63cm x 54cm frame

31cm x 25cm artwork 

“William Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) - or Hardy Wilson, as he styled himself - is regarded as one of the most significant and visionary Australian architects of the twentieth century. Educated in Sydney, Wilson was articled to the architectural firm Kent & Budden in 1899 and studied at Sydney Technical College, qualifying in 1904. During his time as a student, Wilson also took art lessons from Sydney Long and exhibited with the Royal Art Society of NSW. He lived in England between 1905 and 1910, practising in London, making friends with expatriates Arthur Streeton and George Lambert, and travelling extensively in Europe and the United States. He returned home aiming to develop a greater appreciation of built heritage among Australians, and began to make the elegant drawings of colonial buildings by which he is now popularly known.”