• Title
  View of Sydney Port Jackson, New South Wales, taken from the Rocks on the western side of the Cove, ca. 1803 / drawn by John William Lancashire
• Creator
  John William Lancashire, d. 1807?
• Call number
  DG SV1/60
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1803
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  825803
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour on paper - 33 x 48 cm at widest points
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William John Lancashire was sentenced in England on 6th April 1796 for seven years. His various occupations were draughtsman and painter. Crimes he committed in Sydney were mainly for forgery. The last known record for him was in 1807.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography Online edition.
  http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm
  (accessed April, 2008)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Encyclopaedia of Australian art by Alan McCulloch. Dictionary of Australian Artists.
• General note
  
  Transferred from DG 52 in 1985
  
  Frame filed at F190
  Digital order no:a928474
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated, ‘John William Lancashire Delt, 18[illegible]’, lower right.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Dated from Sir William Dixson’s records PXn 699; Lancashire’s period in Sydney 1798-1806; details depicted in the view of Simeon Lord’s house begun in 1803, see PXn 265, p.6-8.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  settlements
  bridges
  
• Place
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Tank Stream (N.S.W.)
  Rocks, The (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Lost Gardens - Museum of Sydney (29 July - 13 December, 2008)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3242471

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