New South Wales. View of Sydney from the West Side of Cove No.1

Location

Country: Australia
City: Sydney
Place: Consulate-General

John Heaviside Clark worked as an engraver, book illustrator and a landscape and marine painter. He was born in Scotland, but worked in London from 1802 to 1832. Clark exhibited his works, mainly maritime and landscape subjects, at the Royal Academy from 1812 to 1832. He was known as ‘Waterloo Clark’ as a result of the many sketches he made of the scene immediately after the conclusion of the Battle of Waterloo. Publications illustrated by Clark include ‘Field Sports Etc. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales’ (1813) and ‘Practical Illustration of Gilpin’s Day’ (1824). He died in Edinburgh in October 1863. Examples of his work can be found at Glasgow Art Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and Maidstone Museum.

Places

Australia

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, seascape/coastal scene, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, stone/rock, cove, cliff, nude, Aborigine, spear, fence, house, sailboat, ship

Materials & Techniques

coloured aquatint

Artist

John Eyre
John Heaviside Clark (c.1771 - 1863)

Title

New South Wales. View of Sydney from the West Side of Cove No.1

Date

published 1810

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Dimensions

height: 57 cm; width: 71.5 cm

GAC number

1907