Title

View from the south side of King George's Sound.

Date made

1814

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69), 597

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower centre below image in black ink, 'View from the south side of King George's Sound.'. No date. Printed lower left below image in black ink, 'W. Westall A.R.A.F.L.S. pinx.t [t in superscript]'. Printed lower right below image in black ink, 'J. Byrne sculp.t [t in superscript]'.

Edition information

edition unknown

Subject categories

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

Subject description

In the foreground two Aboriginal people are at a camp fire. The man kneels and the woman is wrapped in a european? blanket. Situated on high ground in the background can be seen Albany Harbour.

Legacy id

204609