Newcastle in New South Wales with a distant view of Point Stephen. Taken from Prospect Hill.

Title: Newcastle in New South Wales with a distant view of Point Stephen. Taken from Prospect Hill. | Date: 1812 | Technique: engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate
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Title

Newcastle in New South Wales with a distant view of Point Stephen. Taken from Prospect Hill.

Other titles

Newcastle, with a distant View of Point Stephen, taken from Prospect Hill.

Source

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

Page or Plate number

plate 6

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 570a

Date made

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

Matrix size

22.6 x 37.4 cm (printed image)

Support

paper

Support size

29.4 x 42.1 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

Printed lower centre below image, in black ink, 'NEWCASTLE in New South Wales, with a distant View of POINT STEPHEN. / Taken from Prospect Hill / Dedicated to his Excellency Lachlan Macquarie, Esq. Governor of New South Wales &c.&c.&c. / Published Nov.r 30th 1812 by A. West. Sydney'.
Printed lower left below image in black ink, 'Drawn by I. R. Brown.'.
Printed lower right below image,in black ink, 'Engraved by W. Presston.'.
Printed upper left above image in black ink, 'No.6'.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

144087

Accession number

2005.291.6

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

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

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

Browne, Richard. | (1776–1824) British | Male | print after