King George's Sound
Primary Artist
Edmund Lockyer (1784–1860)
Title
Date made
1880 – 1880s
Place made
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map
Category
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