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C1824
North View of Sidney, New South Wales
Artist:
Joseph Lycett (1777 - 1828)
The very rare lithographic version of the most sought after view from Lycett’s Views of New South Wales and Van Dielman’s Land. This important visual record of “Macquarie’s Sydney” is usually found printed in aquatint, while this is the rarely … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
North View of Sidney, New South Wales
Date:
C1824
Artist:
Joseph Lycett (1777 - 1828)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
330mm
x 230mm
Frame Size:
580mm
x 510mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1824
Description:
The very rare lithographic version of the most sought after view from Lycett’s Views of New South Wales and Van Dielman’s Land.
This important visual record of “Macquarie’s Sydney” is usually found printed in aquatint, while this is the rarely seen lithographic version. Unlike aquatint, lithography allows the artist to “draw” directly onto the stone thereby showing the skills of the artist and usually are much more accurate rendition not edited by the engravers.
There are a number of difference bewteen the lithographicand the aquatint version;
The ship to the left has no pendant. (added in the aquatint version)
The second ship has two masts and has a small dingy near the bow. ( a third mast was added and the digny removed in the aquatint version)
The third ship at centre with the large flag facing to the left was placed further back and rotated, to face to the right and a pendant added in the aquatint version.
The ship at right is placed further back and to the left, shown with two masts and rotated to the right in the aquatint version.
In the foreground there are number of changes made to the plants while the buildings in the view also have a number changes made in the the aquatint version.
Taken from Kirribilli, showning from left;
The Gothic, Fort Macquaire, Government stables, the steeple of St James, five Government windmills, the Observatory and Dawes Battery at right.
Artist:
Joseph Lycett (1777-1828)
Lycett was an artist and convicted of forgery in 1811 and transported to New South Wales. He was given his ticket-of-leave soon after arriving and began working as a clerk in the police office but was arrested again for forgery after flooding Sydney with fake 5s notes which he had made using a small copperplate press, later found in his possession. He was sent to the notorious penal settlement of Newcastle and pardoned in 1821 after Governor Macquarie, who had taken an interest in Lycett, sent three of his drawings, including a large view of Sydney, to the then Colonial Secretary Lord Bathurst. It was common for ‘educated convicts’ like Lycett to receive more lenient punishment at the hands of colonial authorities. Lycett returned to England armed with a portfolio of colonial views which he published in his Views in Australia in 1824, dedicated to the Earl of Bathurst. Lycett is acknowledged as being one the most important colonial artists to record the progress of the colony. This famous image is the one of the best representations of Macquarie’s ‘Sydney’, and shows the legacy of his extensive building programme of over 250 works, of varying scale which had been carried out during his period as governor. Many the fine buildings were designed by Francis Greenway a convict that he appointed as civil architect. Lycett includes the spire of St James built in 1824, although he had left the colony in 1822.
