Peel, Peel, Swan River Peel! Very Fine Peel!

Primary Artist

John Phillips (1808–1842)

Title

Peel, Peel, Swan River Peel! Very Fine Peel!

Date made

6 June 1829 (imprint)

Place made

London, Greater London, England View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in black ink, from one copper plate; hand-coloured in watercolour

Matrix size

30.2 x 21.4 cm (printed image); 31.2 x 21.4 cm (printed image and text)

Support

paper

Support size

32.2 x 22.6 cm (sheet)

State

Published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

204621

Accession number

2010.1029

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, Caricature | Australia, Art period: Colonial, Western Australia | Collection: The Wordsworth collection of Western Australian colonial art, acquired 2010.

Creators

Fairburn, John. | (1789–) English | Male | publisher

Phillips, John. | (1808–1842) English | Male | artist

Last Updated

20 Jan 2026