Item 14: Plates for James Wallis Australian Views / Historical Account of the colony of New South Wa...
Author / Creator
Date created
1817-1819
Formats
Issue Copy
Digitised
Contents
Prints - 20 line engravings with etching
Level of description
File
Arrangement
Each plate has been separately catalogued - please navigate to the individual records from this record
Call Numbers
PXD 373
Copying conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Record title
Item 14: Plates for James Wallis Australian Views / Historical Account of the colony of New South Wales, 1817-1819
Record identifier
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Full title
Item 14: Plates for James Wallis Australian Views / Historical Account of the colony of New South Wales, 1817-1819
Contents
These engravings were made in Australia under the direction of Captain James Wallis, of the 46th Regiment. They were first advertised in the Sydney Gazette of 9 January 1819 as a "Series of original Views of New South Wales". When Wallis returned to England in February 1819 he took the plates with h...
Source
Probably purchased with the Lachlan Macquarie Papers acquired from Viscountess Strathallan, January 1914 (see Sotheby's Catalogue of a valuable collection of manuscripts, papers, autographs, letters etc by or relating to Major-General Lachlan Macquarie... in "Newscuttings on Macquarie" QA923.59/M; s...
Exhibited in
A Rage for Curiosity
Signature / Inscriptions
4 of the engravings (no.'s 10, 15, 17 & 19) ) are inscribed in a contemporary hand, probably James Wallis's; most have titles printed beneath image
General note
The Newcastle plates show a completed Christ's Church, which was finished in August 1818. However one drawing, "Vaulcuse Bay, Port Jackson" PXD 373/15, is inscribed December 1817, and "View of Sydney from the North Shore", PXD 373/4, shows Bennelong Point prior to the beginning of the construction...
Date created
1817-1819
Reference code
118293
