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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  163
• Lot Description:
  Lycett, Joseph. Views in Australia or New South Wales, & Van Diemen’s Land Delineated, in Fifty Views
  with descriptive Letter Press. Dedicated by Permission, to The Right Honble. Earl Bathurst, &c. &c. &c. By J. Lycett, Artist to Major General Macquarie, late Governor of those Colonies. Oblong folio, handcoloured lithographed title and 48 handcoloured aquatint views after drawings by Joseph Lycett (plates slightly browned and a few creased), with descriptive text (some with neat paper repairs), and two folding maps (lacking the map of New South Wales but with the folding map from the second edition of Wentworth’s New South Wales, 1820 supplied in its place), bound in more recent half morocco. London, J. Souter, 1825.
• Notes:
  First edition of the finest Australian topographical plate book and the outstanding artistic monument to the age of Macquarie. Joseph Lycett, a forger and professional painter of portraits and miniatures, arrived in New South Wales in 1814 on the same ship that brought James Wallis to the colony. A little over twelve months after his arrival he was again convicted of forgery and sentenced to a term in Newcastle, the place of punishment for convicts who committed further crimes in the colony. Here he came again into contact with James Wallis, who arrived to take command of the penal settlement about a year after Lycett had been sent there. Lycett’s good work in designing the new church in Newcastle, his painted altar-piece and the other drawings and paintings he made for Wallis earned him a conditional pardon in 1819. After 1819 Lycett appears to have travelled and painted extensively in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land. Macquarie was clearly impressed by his skill and employed him somewhat in the capacity of unofficial government artist, finally granting him an absolute pardon in 1821. The pardon enabled him to return to England in 1823 and finish the book of views he had been planning. The 48 views in this work offer a comprehensive record of Macquarie’s Australia, from the settled areas to the frontier. In particular, Lycett’s depiction of various private mansions and country seats – demonstrating the progress of wealth and civilisation in the colonies – is an incomparable record of early colonial architecture and garden design. See Abbey, 570; see Ferguson, 1031; see Wantrup, 218b.
• Estimate:
  A$28,000 - 36,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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