Title

Captain Rossiter comes to Eyre's aid, Great Australian Bight, 1841

Date made

1890

Category

Print

Technique

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

Text printed from matrix

Signed lower right within image in brown watercolour, 'J Macfar [signature cut off]'. Printed title lower centre below image in black ink, 'JOHN EYRE AND WYLIE MEETING CAPTAIN ROSSITER./ THISTLE COVE, NEAR ESPERANCE 1841/ DRAWN BY J. MACFARLANE PUBLISHED BY GEO. ROBERTSON'.

Subject categories

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

Legacy id

204651