Title

View from the south side of King George's Sound.

Other titles

View from the south side of King George Sound

Source

Views of Australian scenery, by William Westall. London: G. & W. Nicol, 1814

Page or Plate number

plate 5.

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 597

Date made

1814

Place made

Europe, England, Greater London, London View on map Close map

Category

Illustrated book

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate

Matrix size

27.5 x 37.4 cm (page)

Support

paper

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Production notes

Included in a seperate issue in book form of the plates that appeared in Mathews Flinders, 'A voyage to Terra Australis' 1814.

Subject description

A view of King George Sound, Western Australia from Peak Head; Torndirrup and Vancouver Peninsula can be seen as well as Albany Harbour. In the foreground two Aboriginal people are at a camp fire. The man kneels and the woman is wrapped in a european? blanket. Vegetation depicted includes a Eucalyptus, a banksia and various grass trees.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

46394

Accession number

86.996.6

Accession method

Curator's allowance

Meeting

Meeting 6, 1985/86 (1986-02-11)

Provenance

Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Anne McCormick, Rare Books, Paintings and Prints, Sydney, February 1986.

Credit line

Purchased 1986

Subject categories

Australia, Book arts: Illustrated book | Australia, Exploration: Inland | Aboriginal Australians

Country of context

Australia

Creators

WESTALL, William | (1781–1850) English | Male | print after

Byrne, John. | (1786–1847) English | Male | engraver