Primary Artist

Ambroise Tardieu (1788–1841)

Title

Village, abandone par les naturels du pays, et situe sur le Sound du Roi George III, dans la Nouvelle-Hollande. [Village, abandoned by the natives, located on King George III Sound in New Holland.]

Physical description

publishedd in the French edition of, Vancouver, George, 'Voyage de decouvertes, a l'ocean Pacifique du nord, et autour du monde, Entrepris par ordre de sa Majeste Britannique; Execute, pendant les annees 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 et 1795, par le capitaine George Vancouver.' Paris: Didot Jeune, 1801-02, 1801

Source

Vancouver, George. 'Voyage de decouvertes, a l' Ocean Pacific du Nord, et autour du monde ... Atlas'. Paris: Didot Jeune, 1802

Page or Plate number

plate 1

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69), 362

Date made

1802

Place made

Paris, Île-de-France, France View on map Close map

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate; hand-coloured at a later date

Support

off-white wove paper

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression with later hand-colouring

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribed centre verso in black pencil, 'C 1807 / Voyage of / Vancouver'.

Subject description

View of Albany, Western Australia.

IRN

204604

Accession number

2010.1139

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

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

Provenance

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.

Creators

Tardieu, Ambroise. | (1788–1841) French | Male | engraver

Last Updated

09 Jan 2013