Album of original drawings by Captain James Wallis and Joseph Lycett, ca. 1817-1818, bound with 'An...
Album of original drawings by Captain James Wallis and Joseph Lycett, ca. 1817-1818, bound with 'An...
Album of original drawings by Captain James Wallis and Joseph Lycett, ca. 1817-1818, bound with 'An Historical account of the Colony of New South Wales ...', published London, Rudolph Ackermann, 1821
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1817-1821
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXE 1072
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Physical Description
Contents
1 album (37 drawings) - pen and ink, watercolour
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Level of description
Fonds
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Access Conditions
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955.
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Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
A grangerised volume of James Wallis' ‘An Historical account of the colony of New South Wales...'. London : Printed For R. Ackermann, Repository Of Arts, Strand, by J. Moyes, Greville Street, 1821. It includes original drawings, watercolours, and collages by James Wallis and Joseph Lycett including views, portraits of Aboriginal people, botanical,...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Album of original drawings by Captain James Wallis and Joseph Lycett, ca. 1817-1818, bound with 'An Historical account of the Colony of New South Wales ...', published London, Rudolph Ackermann, 1821
Continuation of Title
...and its Dependent Settlements; in Illustration of Twelve Views Engraved by W. Preston, A Convict; From Drawings taken on the Spot, by Captain Wallis, of the Forty-Sixth Regiment, To Which is Subjoined An Accurate Map of Port Macquarie, and the Newly Discovered River Hastings’, by J. Oxley, Esq., Surveyor General To The Territory, London: Printed...
Variant title
The Wallis album, ca 1817-1818
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 957996...
Signature / Inscriptions
`Mary Ann Wallis, the gift of her dear husband Major James Wallis, late of H.M. 46th Regt., Prestbury, May 1857’ - title page, top right
`This book presented to her nephew Lt. Colonel A. Taylor by his Aunt Mary Ann Wallis 10th Feb. 1866’ - title page, top left
Object History
The volume, being the personal copy of James Wallis, was given by Wallis to his wife Mary Ann in 1857, and by her to Wallis’ nephew, Lt-Col. Alexander Taylor in 1866.
Another volume of drawings by James Wallis, assembled by Mary Ann Wallis, was presented to Lt-Col. Alexander Tayler by Mary Ann, on 22 January 1866, in Prestbury. This volume i...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Gardner Galleries, Lot 80, October 2011
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Versions
'Australian views, by Captain Wallis, singularly curious, having been engraved on the common sheet copper, employed in coppering the bottoms of ships, by Preston...'[London : R. Ackerman, 1820];
'An historical account of the colony of New South Wales and its dependent settlements : in illustration of twelve views, engraved by W. Preston fro...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXE 1072
Record Identifier
YRlZGLPn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlZGLPn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
954703
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