Landing at Botany Bay

Primary Artist

John Boyne (1756–1810)

Title

Landing at Botany Bay

Date made

16 November 1786 (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

38.2 x 52.0 cm (printed image)

Support

paper

Support size

41.6 x 57.0 cm (sheet)

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print-run unknown

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

202778

Accession number

2010.925

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 2, 2010/2011 (2010-10-26)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Hordern House, Sydney, October 2010.

Credit line

Purchased 2010

Subject categories

Australia, Art period: Colonial, Caricature | Australia, Art period: Pre-European settlement, to 1778

Creators

Boyne, John. | (1756–1810) Irish | Male | artist

Humphrey, Hannah. | (1745–1818) English | Female | publisher

Hedges, Edward. | (1780–) English | Male | publisher

Last Updated

20 Jan 2026