Title

Perth, the capital of Western Australia

Physical description

Looking east from a photograph by Mr manning of Perth

Date made

1840 – 1840-49

Date details

Printed 1890

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one stone; hand-coloured

Support

grey paper

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Not signed. Not dated. Inscribed, printed right edge in black ink, '1220 THE AUSTRALASIAN June 21 1890.'.

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Label verso, 'Spencer Scott Sandilands'. Inscribed verso of frame [backing board] in blue ink, 'All the below facts are from Mr Robert Douglas of Esperance, the son of Captain Douglas/ Saw Mr Robert Douglas June 1972 regarding the picture and he gave the (203/1) whole of the following information: He identified the ships as the 'GRACE DARLING', the 'FLINDERS'/ and a coal hulk./ The 'Grace Darling', his father Captain Douglas's ship, is shown with one top-sail too many, and the mast too high./ The 'Flinders' traded from Adelaide to Esperance with different stores. (Others were the 'Frankland', which sank on a reef while on her moorings at Point Malcom./ The coal hulk ended up wrecked on Bandy Creek. People took timber from the old hulk for their gardens. Oregon pine. They made it into paths./ The painting was painting between 1894 and 1898./ The jetty is the main town jetty and is near the Pier Hotel. It was about the length it is now (1972). It was extended in 1898./ The painting dates to prior to 1898,/ before the jetty was extended./ Mr R. Douglas came to live in Esperance in 1894./ Captain Douglas first had the 'Agnes', which was wrecked in Bremer Bay in 1892. Then he went to Adelaide and bought the 'Grace Darling'./ Eric Stone in Borden has the figure-head of the 'Grace Darling'.

IRN

204632

Accession number

2010.1037

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 2, 2010/2011 (2010-10-26)

Provenance

With Spnecer Scott Sandilands, Melbourne. Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Marie Louise Wordsworth, Perth, October 2010.

Credit line

The Wordsworth Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2010

Subject categories

Australia, Art period: Colonial, Western Australia | Collection: The Wordsworth collection of Western Australian colonial art, acquired 2010.

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013