King George's Sound

Primary Artist

Edmund Lockyer (1784–1860)

Title

King George's Sound

Date made

1880 – 1880s

Place made

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

relief

Technique

wood-engraving, printed in black ink, from one block; hand-coloured at a later date

Text printed from matrix

Printed text lower right within image, 'A.H. Fullwood'. Printed title lower centre below image in black ink, 'KING GEORGE'S SOUND. / (From a sketch by Major Lockyer in 1826.). No date.

Support

paper

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

print run unknown

Subject description

View of King George's Sound, Western Australia, as viewed by Major Lockyer in 1826.

IRN

204617

Accession number

2010.1047

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

06 May 2025