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| Keywords: View from the south side of King George's Sound.jpg View from the South Side of King George's Sound an engraving by John Byrne 1786-1847 of William Westall's 1809 “1812 oil-on-canvas painting Part of King George III Sound on the South Coast of New Holland December 1801 which is in turn based upon Westall's 1801 field sketch King George's Sound View from Peak Head It was first published in Matthew Flinders' 1814 A voyage to Terra Australis and shortly afterwards republished by Westall in his 1814 Views of Australian scenery 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 scan obtained from http //nla gov au/nla pic-an7746458 The image available there has a spurious indexing bar along the bottom The bar has been removed in this version 1814 Delineated by William Westall 1781 “1850 ; engraved by John Byrne 1786-1847 PD-old-100 <gallery> File King George's Sound View from Peak Head jpg Westall's field sketch King George Sound View from Peak Head File King George's Sound view from Peak Head schematic svg Schematic diagram of the field sketch identifying geographic features File Part of King George III Sound on the South Coast of New Holland December 1801 jpg Part of King George III Sound on the South Coast of New Holland December 1801 the oil-on-canvas painting upon which this engraving was based </gallery> William Westall King George Sound Kingia australis Banksia verticillata Macrozamia riedlei Xanthorrhoea preissii | ||||
