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  • PRESTON Walter (1777-?) (2), 'Kangaroos of New South Wales, View from Seven-Mile Hill, near Newcastle; & 'Black Swans of New South W.
    Jul. 21, 2019

    PRESTON Walter (1777-?) (2), 'Kangaroos of New South Wales, View from Seven-Mile Hill, near Newcastle; & 'Black Swans of New South W.

    Est: $300 - $500

    PRESTON, Walter (1777-?) (2) 'Kangaroos of New South Wales, View from Seven-Mile Hill, near Newcastle; & 'Black Swans of New South Wales, View on Reed's Mistake River.' Pub. R Ackermann's The Strand, London, Sept 1820. Engraving (2) 18x26cm each (image approx.)

    Davidson Auctions
  • Convict Artists.- Preston (Walter) - Newcastle, in New South Wales, with a distant View of Point Stephen,
    Oct. 27, 2016

    Convict Artists.- Preston (Walter) - Newcastle, in New South Wales, with a distant View of Point Stephen,

    Est: £300 - £500

    after J.R. Brown, from Views of New South Wales, engraving, 280 x 400mm., some spotting and surface dust, Sydney, Absalom West, 1812. Walter Preston, or Presston as appears on this plate, was convicted of highway robbery, sentenced to life transportation, and arrived in Sydney in January, 1812. He was placed with Absalom West, and was soon engaged in engraving most of the twenty four plates in 'Views in New South Wales', eventually published by West as a set in 1814. Two of these were after J.R. Brown, most likely to be identified as John Brown, who had arrived in 1810, and was listed as a 'painter in the colony', as most of the population of New South Wales at that time, as well as the artists and engravers engaged by West, were convicts. Preston was later sent to a convict gang in Newcastle, where he most likely met Captain James Wallis, for whom he engraved all twelve plates for his 'An Historic Account of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements', and who secured him an absolute pardon in 1819.

    Dreweatts 1759
  • Framed engraving, 'Black Swans of New South
    Oct. 11, 2014

    Framed engraving, 'Black Swans of New South

    Est: $60 - $80

    Framed engraving, 'Black Swans of New South Wales', engraved by Captain Wallis, commandant at Newcastle 1816-1818, engraved by convict engraver Walter Preston, Notes By Peter Cook, Grafton Galleries, Sydney

    Vickers & Hoad
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