Swan River, 50 miles up
Title
Date made
1827 – c.1829
Place made
Europe, England, Greater London, London View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
aquatint, printed in colour, from one copper plates; hand-coloured
Support
buff wove paper
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturers mark
State
2nd state [with 'MAJESTY' added]
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Production notes
The date of this print is usually recorded as 1827. This is the year the original drawing was made. The imprint notes that the drawing was in the possession of F.R. Clause, Esqr., who had travelled to Swan River with Stirling. Clause returned to England in August 1828 where he had the drawing interpreted by W.J. Huggins and engraved by Edward Duncan. This engraving was probably produced as a private commision for Clause around the date of the proclimation of the establishment of the Western Australian settlement in June 1829, as a memento of his involvment. The work does not have the standard imprint ' Published as the act directs', nor 'entered at Stationers Hall' but simply states that it was published by Huggins. The text 'from an original drawing in possession of F.R. Clause, Esqr., surgeon R.N., to whom this engraving is dedicated by his obedient servant J.W. Huggins', also suggests a private commission. The NGA impression has the engraved text, 'Painted by J.W. HUGGINS. Marine Painter to his MAJESTY', Huggins did not receive this honour untill 1834, and the dark printing of this part of the text indicates that it was a later addition.
IRN
206781
Accession number
2010.1147
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