• Title
  Port Jackson, 1804 / watercolour by William Westall
• Creator
  William Westall, 1781-1850
• Call number
  SAFE/V1/1804/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1804
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  413471
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour and pencil drawing - 33 x 49 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This watercolour of Port Jackson, looking down the Harbour from Vaucluse towards the town of Sydney, was painted by Westall - landscape artist on the Investigator expedition - in 1804 in Asia, and is presumably either a copy of an earlier drawing, or worked up from preliminary sketches made in 1802/03. Westall left the Investigator after the wreck of the Porpoise in 1803.
  
  The drawing has been squared up with pencil lines to prepare it for copying. Although close to it, it does differ from his engraving "View of Port Jackson ..." which he published in his "Views of Australian Scenery", London, 1814
  Digital order no:a4665001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated twice at lower left and lower right "W Westall 1804"
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  panoramic views
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Dare to know : the art and science of Pacific voyages - State Library of New South Wales (1 June - 28 November, 1998)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3153142

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