Mr Levinge

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Illustrator, illuminator and designer, illuminated an address presented to Rev. Dr John Bede Polding, in the late 1840s. It was later praised as a masterpiece of colonial art, despite Levinge's status as an amateur artist.
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illustrator, illuminator and designer, illuminated an address presented to Rev. Dr John Bede Polding, Catholic bishop of Sydney, in the late 1840s. It was later praised as a masterpiece of colonial art, despite Levinge’s status as an amateur artist. He won a competition for designs for New South Wales postage stamps in the early 1850s and these – which survive in the collections of the Australian Museum, Sydney – were sent to England to be engraved. In 1853 Levinge’s design was chosen for the corporate seal of the Hunter River Railway Company. A railway engine and driver represented the compan, while a bunch of grapes and an ear of corn symbolised the Hunter district.

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1992
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2011

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