• Title
  Views in Australia, ca. 1826 / Augustus Earle
• Creator
  Augustus Earle, 1793-1838
• Call number
  PX*D 321
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  Sydney : Earle's Lithography, ca. 1826
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Prints
• Reference code
  839754
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 4 lithographs
  
• Physical Description
  4 prints, 3 sheets relief prints - hand coloured lithographs, letterpress - sizes vary
  
• Scope and Content
  Originally issued in 2 parts, each containing 2 plates.
  
  Each lithograph is individually titled beneath lower frame line, at centre:
  Pt. 1, no. 1: Sydney Heads
  Pt. 1, no. 2: View from the Sydney Hotel
  Pt. 2, no. 1: Sydney from Pinchgut Island
  Pt. 2, no. 2: Sydney Lighthouse.
  
  The views are accompanied by 3 sheets of lithographic letterpress:
  1. Advertisement
  2. Description of each of the 2 views issued as pt. 1
  3. Description of each of the 2 views issued as pt. 2
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 685 and PXn 707 -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 1070
  None of the lithographs is dated. Dated from 1826 references to the views in Sydney Monitor, v. 1, no. 23, Fri. 20 Oct. 1826, p. 178, col. 1, Sydney Gazette, 27 Dec. 1826, p. 3, col. 2.
  
  The collective title 'Views in Australia' is from the wrapper included in the set in the Ferguson Collection, National Library of Australia, compared with description in Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, Vol. 1.
  
  Lithographs reproduced in colour and 'advertisement' in black and white in Christie's Australia, 'Australian paintings, prints and books [auction catalogue]', Sydney, 26 Oct., 1987. Lot no. 440, pp. 39-41.
  
  Four framer's labels printed 'Manufactured by Geo. Styles 31 Rowe St., Sydney. Phone B2628' removed from old mounts now filed with restoration reports 20/1/89. JW.
  
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Copy Print : SPF/EARLE, AUGUSTUS
  
  Microfilm copy at: FM3/681
  Digital order no:Album ID : 883463
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Earle's Lithography' and 'Pub:' or 'Pubd' '... at Sydney N.S.W.' lithographed at left and right respectively, beneath lower frame line of each image.
• Topic
  views
  
• Place
  Sydney Heads (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Lighthouse (Sydney)
  George Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Fort Denison (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  

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