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Keywords: 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 by William Westall Painted between 1809 and 1812 under Admiralty commission it is a 61 x 86 5 cm oil-on-canvas painting It is part of the Ministry of Defence Art Collection 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 painting is based on Westall's field sketch King George's Sound View from Peak Head and was itself the basis of the engraving View from the south side of King George's Sound Cropped from the ebook version of Findlay Elizabeth 1988 Arcadian Quest available online at www nla gov au/pub/ebooks/pdf/Arcadian 20Quest pdf The Arcadian Quest acknowledge the image as obtained from transparency provided by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich 1809 “1812 William Westall 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 View from the south side of King George's Sound jpg The engraving View from the south side of King George's Sound </gallery> William Westall King George Sound Kingia australis Banksia verticillata Macrozamia riedlei Xanthorrhoea preissii
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