View of part of the river of Sydney, in New South Wales. Taken from St. Phillip's church yard.

Primary Artist

UNKNOWN ARTIST,

Title

View of part of the river of Sydney, in New South Wales. Taken from St. Phillip's church yard.

Other titles

First Part View of the River of Sydney, taken from the Churchyard of St. Phillip's, Sydney.

Source

Views in New South Wales. Additional series. Sydney: A. West, 1814

Page or Plate number

plate 17

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 596a

Date made

1813

Place made

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

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate

Matrix size

23.3 x 34.5 cm (printed image)

Support

paper

Support size

31.7 x 46.0 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

144098

Accession number

2005.291.17

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

UNKNOWN ENGRAVER, | | engraver

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

UNKNOWN ARTIST, | | artist