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C1814
(1888)
Views of Sydney Cove. East side & West side.
Artist:
John Eyre (1771 - 1812)
Pair of famous panoramas of Sydney Cove, (present day Circular Quay) by John Eyre originally issued as aquatints in 1814. They were then issued again in lithograph in 1888 by William Dymock during the celebrations of 100 years of colonial … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Views of Sydney Cove. East side & West side.
Date:
C1814
(1888)
Artist:
John Eyre (1771 - 1812)
Engraver:
William Dymock
Condition:
Two sheets joined, laid on archival linen.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
990mm
x 335mm
Frame Size:
1300mm
x 690mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1888
Description:
Pair of famous panoramas of Sydney Cove, (present day Circular Quay) by John Eyre originally issued as aquatints in 1814. They were then issued again in lithograph in 1888 by William Dymock during the celebrations of 100 years of colonial settlement.
Rare.
Biography:
John Eyre (1771-1812 )
Eyre was sentenced to seven years transportation for housebreaking and arrived in Sydney in 1801 aboard the Canada. He was granted a conditional pardon in June 1804 and advertised in the Sydney Gazette in the same year that he wished to buy a box of watercolours. In 1807 Governor Bligh employed him to transfer three charts of Port Dalrymple into one single chart. To make ends meet he was also employed to paint numbers on all the buildings east of the Tank Stream at sixpence a time. Eyre left the colony in early 1813 leaving behind a considerable number of works in the colony, many of which are now in the Mitchell and National Library’s collections.
