AUSTRALIA Tasmania View of Hobart

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print title: General View of Hobart, Tasmania Print Specifics: Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique print Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1890 Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., New York. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches (17 x 26,5 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin) Reverse side: Blank Notes: 1. Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: Hobart Town, or simply Hobart, the southern city, has like Launceston a harbour accessible to vessels of average size, besides an outer port where ships of the largest tonnage can ride at anchor. As capital of the island Hobart possesses the finest buildings and the chief scientific and other institutions in the colony. Its magnificent park, covering an area of over a thousand acres, commands a panoramic view of the surrounding scenery almost unrivalled in Australasia. The western horizon is bounded by Mount Wellington, often snow-clad in winter, and by the other ranges and wooded hills, the headlands fringed with foaming surf, Storm Bay and the winding straits merging in the distance with the Austral seas. Eastwards Storm Bay is skirted by the bold promontory of Tasman Peninsula, broken by numerous secondary headlands, and connected with the mainland only by a narrow rocky ridge. At the southern extremity of this peninsula lies the inlet of Port Arthur, which had been chosen as a convict station for the more desperate class of criminals, here guarded both by armed sentinels and ferocious bloodhounds. Now that these painful scenes have passed from the memory of living generations, Port Arthur with its craggy heights, cavernous recesses and seething waters stands out as one of the most romantic spots along the seaboard. At the southern extremity of the peninsula all vessels bound for Storm Bay and the Derwent estuary have to double the frowning cliffs of Cape Raoul, whose black columnar basalt rocks are encircled by a white line of breakers. On the "west side of the bay the inlet of Oyster Cove, near which perished the last survivors of the Tasmanian race, has been recently converted into an oyster-bed modelled on those of the French coast. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998. Five-star service.

Price: 17.16 USD

Location: Manassas, Virginia

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