View of part of the town of Parramatta in New South Wales. Taken from the north side of the river.

Title: View of part of the town of Parramatta in New South Wales. Taken from the north side of the river. | Date: 1812 | Technique: engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate
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Title

View of part of the town of Parramatta in New South Wales. Taken from the north side of the river.

Other titles

Second part view of the town of Parramatta, taken from the north side of the river

Source

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

Page or Plate number

plate 12

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 570a

Date made

1812

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

22.1 x 35.7 cm (printed image)

Support

paper

Support size

32.2 x 45.8 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

Inscribed printed, lower centre below image, in black ink, 'View of PART of the TOWN of PARRAMATTA, in New South Wales, Taken from the North Side of the River. / Dedicated to his Excellency Lachlan Macquarie, Esq: Governor of New South Wales &c.&c.&c./ Published Nov 30th 1812 by A. West, Sydney. ' Signed printed in lower left below image black ink, 'Drawn by J. Eyre'. Signed printed lower right below image in black ink, 'Engraved by P. Slaeger.'. Printed, upper left above image, in black ink, 'No. 12.'.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

144093

Accession number

2005.291.12

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

Slager, Philip. | (1755–1815) Australian | English | Male | engraver