Botany Bay Harbour, in New South Wales with a view of the Heads. Taken from Cook's Point.

Title: bBotany Bay Harbour, in New South Wales with a view of the Heads. Taken from Cook's Point. | Date: 30 November 1812 | Technique: b'engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate'
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Title

Botany Bay Harbour, in New South Wales with a view of the Heads. Taken from Cook's Point.

Source

Views in New South Wales. Sydney: West, 1813.

Page or Plate number

plate 1

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 570a

Date made

30 November 1812

Place made

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

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed upper left above image in black ink, 'No.1'.
Printed lower left below image in black ink, 'Drawn by J.Eyre'S [Sic]'
Printed lower right below image in black ink, 'Engraved by W Presston. [Sic]'.
Printed lower centre below image in black ink, 'BOTANY BAY HARBOUR, in New South Wales. with a VIEW of the HEADS. / Taken from Cook's Point / Dedicated to his Excellency Lachlan Macquarie, Esq. Governor of Nw South Wales. &c. &c. &c. / Published Nov:R 30Th. 1812 by A West, Sydney.'.

Matrix size

21.8 x 35.8 cm (printed image)

Support

paper

Support size

31.5 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

144080

Accession number

2005.291.1

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

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