Sketches in Australia 1838
Westmacott: Life & Times | Lithographic prints | Sketchbooks | Crimean archaeology 1855-6 | Mauritius & South Africa 1825-8 | New Zealand 1840 | Series of Views in Australia 1838 | South America 1851 & 1858 | Series of Views in Australia [1838] Compiled by Barry Kinnaird and Michael Organ A series of six lithographic prints of scenes in Australia by Robert Marsh Westmacott (1801-70) was printed in England during 1837 by C. Hullmandel, perhaps the finest English lithographer of the time and a pioneer in that country of the then relatively new method of printing from stone. The prints were first offered for sale in Sydney during May 1838 by James Tegg, bookseller and printer of George Street, Sydney, under the title Series of Views in Australia, Part 1 . There was no part 2, though Westmacott did issue a series of similar prints during 1848. At the Museum Book Store, London, in 1929, artworks from the Westmacott family collection, an...