View of the town of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1808

View of the town of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1808. With 250 houses, observatory tower, windmills, vice-governor William Paterson's botanical garden, and ships in the harbour. In the foreground, Eora (Yura) Aborigines light a fire, and sailors camp in tents on the shore. Vue de la ville de Sidney, Nouvelle-Hollande. Copied from illustrations by Charles Alexander Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit in Francois Peron's Voyage, 1807. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830

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