Broadside for Views in New South Wales Nos 13-24.
Title
Broadside for Views in New South Wales Nos 13-24.
Other titles
September 12th, 1814. Publication.
Date made
1814
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
relief
Technique
letterpress, printed in black ink
Matrix size
33.8 x 21.3 cm (printed image)
Support
paper
Support size
46.2 x 31.2 cm (sheet)
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Production notes
The two boadsides advertising West's Views now in the NGA collection, are the only known impressions. They are mentioned by Ferguson in his Bibliography of Australia (596a), where he notes that they are perproduced in the 'Torch and Colonial Book Circular', vol.1, 1887-8, p.165.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
144110
Accession number
2005.293
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 6, 2004/2005 (2005-06-22)
Provenance
With Horden House, Sydney. This image was one of fourteen offered as a boxed set in: Governor Lachlan Macquarie. An important collection of rare books, manuscripts and pictorial works focussing on Macquarie's reign as Governor 1810-1822, Sydney: Hordern House, 1996, cat. no. 61. Private collection, Sydney. Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Horden House, Sydney, 2005
Credit line
Purchased 2004
Subject category
Australia, Printed ephemera: Broadside
Creators
West, Absalom. | (1795–) Australian | English | Male | publisher
West, Absalom. | (1795–) Australian | English | Male | author
Howe, George. | (1769–1821) Australian | Male | printer