‘A Bit of a Froggie’: George Collingridge de Tourcey in a Different Light

Author: ADRIAN MITCHELL
Explorations No 45 (Dec 2008): 3-29
https://doi.org/10.62586/XIRK8059

This is a study of George Collingridge, a Sydney author and artist of English birth and French upbringing, and his role in the cultural life of Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. He made major contributions to the arts and the study of exploration in the Pacific.

Keywords: Exploration in the Pacific, French cultural identity, multiculturalism, The Discovery of Australia, influence of Corot