Title

Canal aux Cygnes Noirs dans l'Isle Rottenest Swarte Swaane drift op't Eiland Rottenest [Black Swan River, Rottnest Island]

Source

Prevost d'Exiles, Antoine F. 'Histoire Generale des Voyages, ou Nouvelle Collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont ete publiees jusqu'a present dans les differentes langues de toutes les nations connues...' Chez Didot, Paris 1746 - 1752.

Page or Plate number

after page 80

Date made

1750

Place made

Paris, Ile-de-France, France View on map Close map

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate

Matrix size

21.0 x 15.0 (plate-mark, trimmed within on left as usual)

Support

white laid paper

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

print run unknown

Subject description

View of the Swan River, Western Australia showing the coast at New Holland near Perth and Rottnest Island. In 1696, Willem de Vlamingh on his voyage to Batavia, anchored his two ships before setting off in two longboats to survey the coast. Black swans feature in this image.

IRN

204603

Accession number

2010.1044

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 2, 2010/2011 (2010-10-26)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Marie Louise Wordsworth, Perth, October 2010.

Credit line

The Wordsworth Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2010

Subject categories

Australia, Art period: Colonial, Western Australia | Collection: The Wordsworth collection of Western Australian colonial art, acquired 2010.

Last Updated

09 Jan 2013