Image: Part of King George III Sound, on the South Coast of New Holland, December 1801

Description: Part of King George III Sound, on the South Coast of New Holland, December 1801 by William Westall. Painted between 1809 and 1812 under Admiralty commission, it is a 61 x 86.5 cm oil-on-canvas painting. It is part of the Ministry of Defence Art Collection. It depicts King George Sound on the south coast of Western Australia. Specifically, it is a view looking north-north-west from Peak Head, across Torndirrup and Vancouver Peninsula towards the mainland. The people in the foreground are Australian Aborigines, stylised according to the noble savage tradition. The shrub on the left is Macrozamia riedlei; the shrub in the centre is Banksia verticillata. The tree just right of centre is a Eucalyptus; on the right is the grass-tree Kingia australis, then a group of Xanthorrhoea preissii grass-trees. This painting is based on Westall's field sketch King George's Sound, View from Peak Head, and was itself the basis of the engraving View from the south side of King George's Sound.
Title: Part of King George III Sound, on the South Coast of New Holland, December 1801
Credit: Cropped from the ebook version of Findlay, Elizabeth (1988) Arcadian Quest, available online at www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/Arcadian%20Quest.pdf. The Arcadian Quest acknowledge the image as obtained from transparency provided by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
Author: William Westall
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