View of the Heads, at the Entrance to Port Jackson, New South Wales
Primary Artist
Joseph Lycett (1775–1828)
Title
View of the Heads, at the Entrance to Port Jackson, New South Wales
Source
From Views in Australia or New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Delineated. London: J. Souter, 1824
Page or Plate number
no.9.
Reference
Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 974;1031
Date made
1824
Place made
Europe, England, Greater London, London View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching and aquatint, printed in black ink, from one copper plate; hand- coloured
Matrix size
23.4 x 32.4 cm (plate-mark)
Support
cream wove paper
Support size
28.1 x 38.6 cm (sheet)
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Subject description
Harbour scene of the Heads, Port Jackson, Sydney, looking north from South Head near the Macquarie Lighthouse. Watsons Bay at left, North Harbour (now Manly Cove) in the middle distance and hills of present-day Bouddi National Park in the distance.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
48041
Accession number
59.252
Accession method
Purchase
Provenance
Purchased by the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board (C.A.A.B.), from Clarice Thomas, 1959.
Credit line
Purchased 1959
Subject categories
Australia, Book arts: Illustrated book | Australia, Art period: Colonial, New South Wales
Country of context
Australia
Creators
LYCETT, Joseph | (1775–1828) Australian | English | Male | artist