Australian Scenery Album by W. Blackwood

Album By W.Blackwood of Australian Scenery, 12 albumen…
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Album By W.blackwood of Australian Scenery, 12 albumen photoprints, images approx. 21.5 x 29.5 laid down in album with manuscript titles in the mount., One of Blackwood's albums of Sydney views produced in 1858 and 1859, with subjects include, The Great Southern Railway Station, Farm Cove & Government Garden, Bridge on Road to Lighthouse, Rushcutters Bay, Campbells Wharf, Bridge Street & Exchange, Wynyard Square, Elizabeth Bay, Pyrmont Bridge, Macquarie St and Government House, Described in the Sydney Morning Herald March 26, 1858 'They are the largest photographs we have yet seen taken in this city. The views are not merely faultless but super-excellent...Mr Blackwood is an artist of considerable merit

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  • Blackwood - One of the best known and most widely used Australian timbers, blackwood (acacia melanoxylon), is a member of the Acacia (wattle) family and grows in eastern Australia from about Adelaide in South Australia, as far north as Cairns in Queensland.

    The largest, straightest and tallest trees come from the wet forest and swamps of north-west Tasmania where it is grown commercially.

    Blackwood timber colours range across a wide spectrum, from a very pale honey colour through to a dark chocolate with streaks of red tinge.

    The hardwood timber has been commonly used in the production of furniture, flooring, and musical instruments in Australia from the late 19th century. However, the straight grain timber is not the most prized or valuable, that honour falls to blackwood with a wavy, fiddleback pattern, which is used both in the solid and as a veneer. Fiddleback was only used on the finest examples of furniture.

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