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C1813
View of Part of Sydney, the Capital of New South W…
Artist:
Exceptionally rare engraved view of Sydney Cove looking west from part one, plate 4, 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.
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Full Title:
View of Part of Sydney, the Capital of New South Wales. Taken from Bene Longs Point. Dedicated to His Excellency Lachlan Macquarie, esqr. Governor of New South Wales.
Date:
C1813
Artist:
Condition:
Minor chips to sheet edges, small section of the top right sheet edge cracked, nick to the engraved area in the sky, laid onto Japanese paper
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
367mm
x 218mm
Paper Size:
400mm
x 268mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1813
Description:
Exceptionally rare engraved view of Sydney Cove looking west from part one, plate 4, 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: 144085
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 :: (1941-69, 1986), 570a.
Collections:
National Gallery Australia: 144085
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.
