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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 |   The Art of Captain Robert Marsh Westmacott   Sketchbooks and Isolated Works   Robert Marsh Westmacott, My Cottage, Woodlands, Illawarra. Collection: National Library of Australia. This section contains descriptions of all Westmacott's known works in watercolour, wash, ink and pencil. Individual items are mostly to be found in bound volumes in Australian public collections. Provenance is often vague, as following the Museum Book Store sale of 1929 it appears a number of Westmacott's original sketchbooks as offered in that sale were broken up, rearranged, and rebound. Rex Nan Kivell appears to have purchased the best items and deposited them in the National Library of Australia, including NLA NK762/1-72, with Sir William...

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 |   The Art of Captain Robert Marsh Westmacott Section 1 Lithographs During his lifetime, Robert Marsh Westmacott was involved in the production of two series of lithographs of New South Wales scenes (1838 and 1848); the publication with John Skinner Prout (March 1841) of a lithograph recording the fire at the Albion Mills, Sydney; and a view of Tory Channel, Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, based on one of his drawings, was lithographed in 1851. These works are titled and described in the Catalogue as follows: * Series of Views in Australia [1838] * Destructive fire at the Albion Mill [1841] * Sketches in Australia [1848] * Tory Channel, Queen Charlotte Sound , New Zealand [1851] * Sketches in Australia [1852] Detailed de...