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    • Title:A series of lithographic drawings of Sydney and its environs.
    • Publication:Sydney : J.G. Austin and Co., No. 12, Bridge Street, 1836.
    • Physical Description:[16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 x 33 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: DU178 .S47 1836+ Oversize
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy imperfect; lacks 8 plates and back wrapper. Bound in publisher's original yellow printed paper wrappers. Lithographs are uncolored.
    • Notes:Cover title.
      Attributed to Robert Russell. See: Dictionary of Australian artists.
      "Coloured £1/8s., plain 13s.6d."--Front cover.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Contents:South Head light house, Port Jackson -- Catholic Chapel, Hyde Park -- Toll Gate and Benevolent Asylum, George Street South -- Old windmill, Government Domain -- Government House, Sydney -- Governor's bathing house, Govt. Domain -- Lower Lodge, Govt. Domain -- New toll gate, Parramatta Road -- St. James Church, Supreme Court House -- Fort Macquarie, Government Domain -- Prisoners' Barracks, Hyde Park -- Police Office, George Street -- Dawes' Battery, Dawes Point --Upper Lodge, Govt. Domain -- La Perouse's Monument, Botany Bay -- Catholic Chapel, front view.
    • References:Dictionary of Australian artists. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 689
    • Subjects:Landscapes--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
      Architecture, Domestic--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
      Sydney (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1836.
      J.G. Austin and Co.--Publisher.
    • Genre/Form:Lithographs--1836.
    • Also listed under:Russell, Robert, 1808-1900, illustrator.