View_from_the_south_side_of_King_George's_Sound.jpg
Author |
Delineated by
William Westall
(1781–1850); engraved by
John Byrne (1786-1847)
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Object type |
painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Description |
View from the South Side of King George's Sound , an engraving by John Byrne (1786-1847) of William Westall 's 1809–1812 oil-on-canvas painting Part of King George III Sound, on the South Coast of New Holland, December 1801 , which is in turn based upon Westall's 1801 field sketch King George's Sound, View from Peak Head . It was first published in Matthew Flinders ' 1814 A voyage to Terra Australis , and shortly afterwards republished by Westall in his 1814 Views of Australian scenery . It depicts King George Sound on the south coast of Western Australia . Specifically, it is a view looking north-north-west from Peak Head , across Torndirrup and Vancouver Peninsula towards the mainland. The people in the foreground are Australian Aborigines , stylised according to the noble savage tradition. The shrub on the left is Macrozamia riedlei ; the shrub in the centre is Banksia verticillata . The tree just right of centre is a Eucalyptus ; on the right is the grass-tree Kingia australis , then a group of Xanthorrhoea preissii grass-trees. |
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Date |
1814
date QS:P571,+1814-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Source/Photographer | This scan obtained from http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an7746458 . The image available there has a spurious indexing bar along the bottom. The bar has been removed in this version. | ||||||
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( Reusing this file ) |
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