View of part of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales. Taken from Dawes's Point.
Title
View of part of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales. Taken from Dawes's Point.
Source
Views in New South Wales. Sydney: West, 1813
Page or Plate number
plate 10
Reference
Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 570a
Date made
1812
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate
Matrix size
22.4 x 36.1 cm (printed image)
Support
paper
Support size
31.1 x 45.6 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
144091
Accession number
2005.291.10
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 6, 2004/2005 (2005-06-22)
Provenance
With Horden House, Sydney. This image was one of fourteen offered as a boxed set in: Governor Lachlan Macquarie. An important collection of rare books, manuscripts and pictorial works focussing on Macquarie's reign as Governor 1810-1822, Sydney: Hordern House, 1996, cat. no. 60. Private collection, Sydney. Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Horden House, Sydney, 2005
Credit line
Purchased 2004
Subject category
Australia, Art period: Colonial, New South Wales
Creators
West, Absalom. | (1795–) Australian | English | Male | publisher
Eyre, John. | (1771–1812) English | Male | print after
Preston, Walter. | (1787–1821) Australian | English | Male | engraver