b'58386A UNIQUE CLINT SUNDIAL FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIAA bronze sundial (on later wooden base) engraved by Raphael Clint, c 1837-39.With R. CLINT . MAKER engraved in lower left corner, SYDNEY in lower right corner and Adelaide Latitude 34.59S in the semi-circular panel at bottom centre. 17 x 17cm.Clint was one of only a few makers of sundials in the colony of New South Wales in the late 1830s and certainly the best known of them. Although Clint has signed this sundial in his usual manner, it is unlike other known examples that are also engraved with his name and his location (Sydney) in that it has been made for a location outside New South Wales. Other known examples include sundials made for: Archibald Mosman of St Leonards Lodge, North Shore; Rev Thomas Sharpe of Roxburgh Cottage, Bathurst; Henry Edenborough of Wollogorong on the southern tablelands of NSW; A W Scott of Ash Island near Newcastle; Daniel Cohen of Port Macquarie and James Barker of Lindesay, Darling Point.384 Clint advertised in 1837 that he could provide calculated Sun Dials. for any five miles in the Colony as well as computing sundials to any particular locality. In this period, sundials remained particularly useful devices for country dwellers who GENERAL may have had no town clock nearby and been unable to easily check the accuracy of their own clocks. In fact, Clint aimed his 1837 advertisement at the Gentlemen residing or having 383 Stations in the interior as sundials will be found of incalculable Convent and Schools for the Christian Brothers utility up the country, where no other means of maintaining a elevated architectural view, scale: 1/8 inch to a foot, correct knowledge of time exists.framed and mounted in birdseye maple, Raphael Clint (1797-1849), son of miniature painter and 62cm x 80cm engraver George Clint, was born in Hertfordshire, and migrated $120200to Western Australia in 1829. He worked first as a surveyor before moving with his wife to Van Diemens Land in 1832. By 384 February 1835 Clint had moved to Sydney and set up business A Colonial tea caddy, musk and cedar with pine secondaryas an engraver. Although he relied on assistants to carry out timbers, Tasmanian origin, circa 1840, original drawing and printing, Clints business produced a 13cm high, 29.5cm wide, 13.5cm deep number of maps, charts and plans of Australasia, caricatures, intaglios, as well as designs and engravings for the first armorial $1,0001,500 bookplates in New South Wales. The business also engraved copper plaques for tombstones and silver for domestic use, and 385 designed door plates and sundials.A Colonial cutlery box with lift tops,$4,0006,000Tasmanian origin, circa 1850,19cm high, 34cm wide, 23cm deep$300500386'