Primary Artist

UNKNOWN ENGRAVER,

Title

Advertisement: Westbury Inn, Tasmania. Robert Lyall, proprietor.

Date made

1843 – c.1845

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in purple ink, from one copper plate

Text printed from matrix

Printed centre above image, ' WESTBURY INN, TASMANIA.'. Printed lower centre blow image, 'Robert Lyall, Proprietor.'.

Matrix size

4.8 x 11.2 cm (image)

Edition information

print run unknown

Subject categories

Architecture | Australia, Art period: Colonial, Tasmania | Australia, Printed ephemera: Illustrated advertising envelope

Subject description

A vignette of Westbury Inn a two-storey brick building built in 1833 on the corner of King and William Streets in Westbury, Tasmania. In 1843 Robert Mervyn Lyall, an exconvict, became licencee and the Assembly Hall on the left was added. In front of the Inn is a horse drawn coach and a group of people.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

93265

Creators

UNKNOWN ENGRAVER, | | artist