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C1813
Port Jackson Harbour, in New South Wales: with a distant view of the Blue Mountains. Taken from South Head.
Exceptionally rare engraved view of Sydney taken from South Head looking west, from part one, plate 2, of Absalom West’s Views published on January 1st, 1813. Absalom West’s Views were the first landscape views to be engraved and published in … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Port Jackson Harbour, in New South Wales: with a distant view of the Blue Mountains. Taken from South Head.
Date:
C1813
Condition:
Repaired tears on left and margins, minor loss of top left corner, faint spots at top, backed with Japanese paper.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
364mm
x 219mm
Paper Size:
460mm
x 305mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1813
Description:
Exceptionally rare engraved view of Sydney taken from South Head looking west, from part one, plate 2, of Absalom West’s Views published on January 1st, 1813.
Absalom West’s Views were the first landscape views to be engraved and published in Australia.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: (1941-69, 1986), 570a.
Collections:
National Gallery Australia: 144081
State Library New South Wales: FL10526474
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: (1941-69, 1986), 570a.
Collections:
National Gallery Australia: 144081
State Library New South Wales: FL10526474
Walter Preston (1777 - )
Walter Preston (1777-?) Preston was an engraver sentenced to death for highway robbery and transported to the penal settlement of Newcastle for fourteen years in 1814 under the command of Captain Wallis. He engraved twelve views of NSW for Wallis and when these were subsequently published they were attributed not to Preston but Wallis.
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John Eyre (1771 - )
Pardoned convict, was an early Australian painter and engraver, born in Coventry, Warwickshire in England. Aged 13 years in 1794, he was apprenticed to his father, a wool-comber and weaver, and became a Coventry freeman in August 1792. On 23 March 1799 he was sentenced to transportation for seven years for housebreaking, and reached Sydney in the transport Canada in December 1801. Granted a conditional pardon on 4 June 1804, Eyre's early drawings are dated from around this time. He generally focused on urban landscapes, giving his creative output value as both works of art and historical records. Over the course of Eyre's artistic career, his work progressed from purely representative topographical depictions, to more artistic compositions with embellishments such as Aboriginal figures and ships at sea. This progression is typical of the developmental pattern of landscape depiction in the early colonial period. He left the Colony as a free man in 1812; nothing is known of his later life.
