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Oswald Brierly (Brit., 1817-1894).

[Emigrant Sailing Ship]

1852. Hand-coloured lithograph, 32.5 x 49.1cm. Slight creases with cracking and surface loss to image, with some repairs. Framed.

Appears to be a proof before letters. Provenance: Collection of Vice-admiral Bernard V.A. Wardell.

Fort Macquarie and Government House are depicted in the background. The vessel entering Sydney Harbour may be the Thomas Arbuthnot, which landed immigrants on 3rd February 1850. During the middle of the 19th century the transportation of convicts was being phased out and there was a push to promote free settlers to immigrate to Australia. This view of Sydney was most likely created during the period prior to the gold rush of the 1850s.

Sir Oswald Walters Brierly arrived in Australia in 1842 with Benjamin Boyd, who established the whaling settlement of Boyd Town, where Brierly remained for six years. He then visited New Zealand in 1850, en route to England. He became known as the British ‘graphic naval historian’ during the Crimean War, and was knighted in 1885. Ref: Howard Hinton Art Collection, Armidale.

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Item #CL169-17

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