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John Eyre 1771-1812 was sentenced to seven years transportation for housebreaking and arrived in Sydney in 1801 aboard the Canada. He was granted a conditional pardon in June 1804 and advertised in the Sydney Gazette in the same year that he wished to buy a box of watercolours. In 1807 Governor Bligh employed him to transfer three charts of Port Dalrymple into one single chart. To make ends meet he was also employed to paint numbers on all the buildings east of the Tank Stream at sixpence a time. Eyre left the colony in early 1813 leaving behind a considerable number of works in the colony, many of which are now in the Mitchell and National Library’s collections.

This view taken from the same vantage point as Lesueur's panorama (item 10) is looking towards the western side of present day Circular Quay. Published by R.H. Laurie in his, “Catalogue of perspective views coloured for the shew glass or diagonal mirro'r."


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Sydney Views 1788-1888
Knoblauch Collection
Item 41 Page 68

Hyde Park Barracks from Voyage autour du monde, atlas historique by Louis de Freycinet. The Uranie sailed from Toulon and visited Western Australia and New South Wales which resulted in some of the finest engraved Australian colonial period views ever printed.

Rare.

Louis Auguste de Sainson was a topographical draughtsman on Dumont d'Urville's voyage around the world in the Astrolabe from 1826 to 1829. De Sainson probably did the original sketch for this view of Government House while accompanying Dumont d'Urville to meet Governor Darling on the 2 December 1826. Dumont d'Urville described Darling as 'a coldly polite elderly man, who however promised me his good offices for anything that was within his power. Government House is shown with the additions made by successive governors. During the twelve years the Macquaries were in residence, the building became one of the first attempts at 'Italiante' style in the colony. The spire of St James's church is behind the house, and the central tower of the Governor's stables designed by Francis Greenway shows above the trees on the left.

Rare first issue identified by it being printed on India Paper and the name, 'J.Tatsu, editteur at lower left'.


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Sydney Views 1788-1888
Knoblauch Collection
Item 51 Page 80

Superb image from Dumont D'Urville's voyage of exploration shows an elegant four in hand driving along the harbour at the Botanic Gardens, Farm Cove, with Fort Macquarie in the background (now the Opera House). To the very left is government house.

Rare first issue identified by it being printed on India Paper and the name, 'J.Tatsu, editteur'.

View in Sydney Harbour looking eastwards to the Heads from the celebrated voyage undertaken by Dumont D’Urville in the Astrolabe. The purpose of the voyage was to find opportunities for French whalers and to locate a suitable place to establish a penal colony. The ship arrived in Sydney on 17 January 1824 and stayed there for two months. The officers keenly observed the progress of the convict settlement during their stay.

Rare first issue identified by it being printed on India Paper and the name, 'J.Tatsu, editteur at lower left'.

Louise Auguste de Sainson
B1800-? Artist & draughtsman for Dumont D’Urville’s voyage on the Astrolabe.

Edmond Bigot de La Touanne, naval officer on the Thetis expedition to the South Seas in 1824-6 commanded by H. de Bouganville. They had been given secret orders to report on the defense capabilities of British settlement. Bougainville & his officers traveled as far afield as possible. The grandeur of the Blue Mountains was so much admired by the French artists, that they declaimed it exceeded everything they had seen during their whole of their expedition.

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Sydney Views 1788-1888
Knoblauch Collection
Item 57 Page 86Shows Fort Macquarie from the Botanic Gardens.

From the original edition of, "Journal de la navigation autour du globe de la fregate la Thetis et de la corvette l'Esperance". RARE

French artist on board the frigate Venus of expedition (1836-39) to the south Pacific under the command of Captain Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars. This expedition to the south Pacific ordered by King Louis Phillipe partly to obtain formal submission of Tahiti to France from Queen Pomare IV, visited Sydney in November to December 1838. From the official account of the voyage "Voyage autour du monde sur la fregate Venus from Atlas pittoresque ­ Abel du Petit-Thouars 1793-1864".

A rare Sydney panorama from one of the rarest of all French Pacific voyage accounts.


Pl. no. 63 & 64 of: Voyage autour du monde sur la fregate Venus. Atlas pittoresque / Abel du Petit-Thouars.

DOAA 527

Rare print from Martens, "Environs of Sydney".

Rare separately issued print by this well known marine artist who came to Australia in 1841 as the personal artist on the largest and most elegant private yacht ever seen in Australian waters owned by Ben Boyd. The 'Wanderer' was greeted by cheering crowds who swarmed around Sydney Cove, excited by the arrival of this magnificent boat. Ben Boyd the tall, aristocratic Scottish merchant banker and stockbroker set out to establish a maritime trading empire with raised capital at Eden on the south coast of New South Wales.

The reception that the Wanderer received on that first day is seen replicated in this print of newly arrived emigrants on board a magnificent clipper ship in full sail. Their arrival is set against the back drop of Government House and Fort Macquarie to the right.

Images such as these promoted the colony to prospective emigrants, especially so after the discovery of gold in New South Wales which occurred in the same year as the print was issued. The print is dedicated to Oswald Bloxsome who owned a magnificent mansion at Mosman and was so impressed by Brierly's artistic abilities that he built him a small cottage in his garden, so that he could paint while looking across Mosman Bay.

Ref: HSEA pg 142-3