Joseph Lycett | View of Wilberforce, on the Banks of the River Hawkesbury NSW | SOLD
View of Wilberforce on the Banks of The River Hawkesbury NSW
1825
Image: 17.6 cm x 27.9 cm
Sheet: 24.5 x 34.5 cm
Aquatint, printed in black ink on wove paper
Hand coloured with watercolour
A beautiful piece of Australian history. Printed in London for the publication ‘Views In Australia or New South Wales and Van Diemens’s Land Delineated. Published by John Souter 1825. The total printed edition is thought to be 250. The works Lycett depicted for the publication were the places Governor Macquarie visited during his tour of the colonies in 1821. It has not been proven that Lycett visited all of the areas depicted or if he copied them from works drawn by the official artists touring with Macquarie, George Evans and James Taylor
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Joseph Lycett
Born: 1774 Staffordshire, UK
Arrived in Sydney 1814
Died: 1828 UK
Convicted for forgery in 1811, Lycett arrived in Sydney in 1814 on the ‘General Hewitt’. The voyage was a tragic disaster, one in nine of the 300 male convicts died. Captain James Wallis was also onboard.
In Sydney the following year he was again convicted of forgery and sent to Newcastle, but due to his artistic talents he was employed by Captain Wallis to draw up plans for a new church.
Lycett made many paintings Sydney and the outer suburbs, Hobart and the indigenous people from various regions.
His Magnum Opus was the 50 aquatints titled ‘Views in Australia and Van Diemens Land’ printed in thirteen monthly parts in 1824-25.
Lycett’s work is represented in all Major Australian Galleries.
