Title

View of Sharks Bay, in New South Wales. Taken from Vinegar Hill.

Source

Views of New South Wales. Sydney: A. West, 1814

Page or Plate number

plate 16

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 596a

Date made

1812

Place made

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

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate

Matrix size

22.0 x 36.6 cm (printed image)

Support

paper

Support size

31.5 x 46.0 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed printed below image in black ink, 'Drawn by J.Eyre'S [Sic]' Signed printed lower right below image in black ink, 'Engraved by W Presston.(Sic)'. Signed and dated printed lower corner below image in black ink, 'Published Nov:R 30Th. 1812 by A West, Sydney.' Titled printed lower centre below image in black ink, 'View of SHARK'S BAY, in New South Wales./ Dedicated to his Excellency Lachlan Macquarie, Esq. Governor of New South Wales. &c. &c. &c.'.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

144097

Accession number

2005.291.16

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

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

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

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