painter, modeller, architect and civil engineer, showed oil copies of British cattle pictures and View on the Yarra as well as architectural drawings at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, giving his address as Punt Road, Richmond. Eight architectural drawings were included in the 1869 Melbourne Public Library Exhibition, by which time Rasché had an established practice in Melbourne as an architect and civil engineer. It continued until at least 1888. He exhibited paintings from time to time, both copies and original works, sending four large oils from 62 Collins Street, Melbourne, to the NSW Academy of Art Exhibition at Sydney in 1872: Hagar and Ishmael , Gipsies , An Australian Farmyard and A River Scene . Hagar and Ishmael , Gipsies and Fisherwoman were included in the 1872 Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition held in preparation for the London International Exhibition, on which occasion he also exhibited an architectural design, an engineering design and two models, one of a direct-acting steam battery for quartz crushing, the other an architectural model of a pyrites and ore mill. Two male portraits were shown in the Victoria Court at the 1879 Sydney International Exhibition. By then, W. Rasché, civil engineer, was at 55 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne.
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