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 9

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 570a

Date made

30 November 1812

Place made

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate; hand-coloured

Matrix size

29.6 x 42.6 cm (plate-mark); 21.8 x 36.2 cm (printed image)

Support

paper

Support size

31.2 x 45.9 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

1st state, 1 proof known; 2nd state, edition unknown

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

144090

Accession number

2005.291.9

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

Country of context

Australia

Creators

Eyre, John. | (1771–1812) English | Male | print after

West, Absalom. | (1795–) Australian | English | Male | publisher

Preston, Walter. | (1787–1821) Australian | English | Male | engraver

Last Updated

13 Nov 2024