Folio 08: Black Swans. / of / New South Wales.

PXD 373/8

item

c. 1818

Graphic Materials, Prints

118335

Digitised

Prints - 1 line engraving with etching on thin wove paper - 18.8 x 26.1 cm inside frame lines; 24.1 x 34.7 cm plate size; 31.8 x 46.6 cm paper size

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

A pencil drawing, possibly preparatory for this plate, and said to be by James Wallis (the drawing came from the Wallis family), was offered for sale by Sotheby's (London) 4 November 1987, lot 112
This engraving is very close to an oil panel on the Dixson Galleries Collector Chest - see DG R4/8
Digital order no:a1272008

Printed beneath image at lower left "View on Reed's Mistake River. N.S.W"
Printed beneath image at lower right "Preston Sculp."

Joseph Lycett : convict artist - Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (1 April, 2006 - 31 March, 2007)
Treasures of Newcastle from the Macquarie Era - Newcastle Region Art Gallery (February, 2013 - May, 2013)