[Letterheads from the engravings in Landscape scenery, illustrating Sydney, Paramatta [sic], Richmon...
[Letterheads from the engravings in Landscape scenery, illustrating Sydney, Paramatta [sic], Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson, New South Wales / Fleury [i.e. F.C. Terry] del. 1853
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1853
Call Numbers
PXA 1791
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
18 prints - 25.4 x 20 cm, (13 letterheads 25.4 x 40.3 cm, folded) - engraving on the upper half of each sheet, watermark
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
Incomplete set ; letterheads have been numbered according to the number on the plates in the published volume. There are 18 individual letterheads in this incomplete set
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Letterhead:
2. Sydney Cove from Fort Macquarie
4. Newcastle from the Nobby
6. New bridge, West Maitland
7. Sydney from the old Point Piper Road
8. Sydney, Garden Island, Pinchgut &c from Point Piper
9. The Gap, South Head
11. North Head from Vaucluse
12. View of East Maitland
13. View of West Maitland from the Hunter
1...
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Letterheads from the engravings in Landscape scenery, illustrating Sydney, Paramatta [sic], Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson, New South Wales / Fleury [i.e. F.C. Terry] del. 1853
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Terry, del. 1853 -- imprint on the lower left hand edge of each image
Sands & Kenny, Sydney & Melbourne -- imprint on the lower right hand edge of each image
Each letterhead has large watermark "Sands & Kenny"
Attributions / Conjectures
Artist's name wrongly engraved as Fleury on all plates
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Margaret Durham, March 2013
Administrative / Biographical history
In 1854 the Sydney publisher John Sands commissioned a series of sketches from Terry, principally views of Sydney and the harbour. Thirty-eight were engraved on steel in London and issued at Sydney in 1855 as Landscape Scenery, Illustrating Sydney, Paramatta [sic], Richmond, Maitland, Windsor and Port Jackson, New South Wales (also known as The Aus...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1791
Record Identifier
9gkdlee9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkdlee9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1038206
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