One of the most significant pictorial colonial records of New South Wales during the early 19th century will go on display in Australia for the first time after being discovered in Canada last year.
Made in Newcastle by Captain James Wallis and convict artist Joseph Lycett, the volume of sketches, paintings and engravings known as the “Wallis Album” was unveiled at the Newcastle Art Gallery yesterday where it will remain on display until the 26th of February.
The 194-year-old album features 35 watercolours and drawings of Sydney, regional views of NSW, portraits of Aborigines and natural history illustrations. Richard Neville, librarian at the New South Wales State Library, explained that “The album not only answers many longstanding questions about the authorship of works previously attributed to Wallis and Lycett, but sheds new light on the nature of inter-racial relationships.”
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