Coming to anchor off Sydney Cove.

Primary Artist

Augustus Earle (1793–1838)

Title

Coming to anchor off Sydney Cove.

Other titles

Coming to an anchor off Sydney Cove

Source

Views in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. Australian Scrap Book London: Charles Hullmandel, 1830

Page or Plate number

part 1, plate 3

Reference

Butler (1982), 10; Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 1342

Date made

1830

Place made

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

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Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone; hand-coloured

Matrix size

20.8 x 28.6 cm (printed image (trimmed))

Support

cream paper

Support size

22.0 x 28.7 cm (sheet)

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed lower centre in black pencil, '2'.

Subject description

Harbour scene of sailing ships in Port Jackson with Fort Macquarie at left and Dawes Battery on Observatory Hill at centre, Sydney, N.S.W.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

4032

Accession number

95.342

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 4, 1994/95 (1995-02-23)

Provenance

Mrs Cape. By descent to, Major General T.F. Cape. Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Major General T.F. Cape, Canberra, February 1995.

Credit line

Purchased 1995

Country of context

Australia

Creators

Hullmandel, Charles Joseph | (1789–1850) English | Male | printer

Earle, Augustus. | (1793–1838) English | Male | artist

Cross, Joseph. | (1791–1843) English | Male | publisher