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HOPLEY, Edward (after)
A Primrose from England (Proof copy).
Graves and Co., London, 1856. Handcoloured lithograph, 550 x 710 mm., framed; apart from some embrowning to caption in very good original condition. Engraved from a famous painting by Edward Hopley (1816-1869), exhibited at the Royal Academy London in 1855. J.R. Dicksee (1817-1905) produced this coloured lithograph in 1856. Its lengthy inscription explains that "Dr. Ward mentioned to the Royal Institution, that a primrose had been taken to Australia in a covered glass case, and when it arrived there in full bloom, the sensation it excited as a reminiscence of "fatherland" was so great, that it was necessary to protect it with a guard...".
Hopley's painting and the subsequent lithograph are the direct results of a sensational article published by the Illustrated London News (16 October 1858): "Two or three years ago it was reported in a newspaper of Melbourne, Australia, that an English primrose had been imported in a wardian-case, and would be brought on shore from a ship in the harbour, to be exhibited in the city. The announcement excited a great sensation. Upwards of three thousand people turned out into the streets to see the gentle stranger brought ashore, and the pressure of the crowd was so great that it was found necessary to call out the police to preserve order, and to make a line, through which the primrose might be escorted on shore, to be seen by all her admirers...".
This finely executed lithograph is certainly an outstanding example of Victorian sentimentality, but it does highlight very poignantly the overwhelming sense of isolation felt by the early Australian settlers, and their desire to experience an event that would link them once again to England.
The original painting is now in the Bendigo Art Gallery. It was purchased in 1934 from the sale of George Lansell, one of Bendigo's most successful entrepreneurs.
Illustrated: The Art of Gardening in Colonial Australia.
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