NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
The images included here are reproduced by permission
of the National
Library of Australia. Many of the views of Lake Macquarie
and its people were drawn by the convict artist Joseph Lycett,
ca. 1775-1828. Lycett's work was encouraged by Governor Macquarie,
and his collected picturesque views were published in his Views
in Australia or New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Delineated
(London, 1824) and Drawings of the natives & scenery of
Van Diemens Land, 1830. Most were executed before 1820. Lycett's
water colours and prints provide a pictorial record of traditional
life for coastal people, including the Awabakal, during the period
that Threlkeld was undertaking his missionary and linguistic work.
For Lycett's life and connection with the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie
areas, see John Turner, Joseph Lycett: Governor Macquarie's
Convict Artist (Turner
1997).
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1. Dry Plate Photograph of Rev L E Threlkeld,
1788-1859. Not dated, but probably taken not long before
his death in 1859. The daguerrotype, the first commercial
photographic system, was licensed by its inventor to the
French government in 1839. State Library of New South Wales
Picture Collection.
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2. Joseph Lycett, Aborigine climbing a
tree by cutting steps in the trunk, watercolour; 27.8 x
17.7 cm. In his: Drawings of the natives &
scenery of Van Diemens Land, 1830. National Library
of Australia.
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3. "Magill" (Birabahn). Watercolour ; 26.8
x 22 cm., c. 1819, by convict artist, Richard Browne of
Newcastle, 1776-1824. National Library of Australia.
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4. Joseph Lycett, Aborigines feeding from
beached whales, watercolour; 27.8 x 17.7 cm. In his:
Drawings of the natives & scenery of Van Diemens
Land, 1830. National Library of Australia.
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5. Joseph Lycett, Aborigines hunting kangaroo,
watercolour; 27.8 x 17.7 cm. In his: Drawings of
the natives & scenery of Van Diemens Land, 1830.
National Library of Australia.
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6. Joseph Lycett, Aborigines hunting waterbirds,
watercolour; 27.8 x 17.7 cm. In his: Drawings of
the natives & scenery of Van Diemens Land, 1830.
National Library of Australia.
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7. Joseph Lycett, Aborigines resting by
camp fire, near the mouth of the Hunter River, Newcastle,
N.S.W. National Library of Australia.
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8. Joseph Lycett, Corroboree around a camp
fire. In his: Drawings of the natives & scenery of Van
Diemens Land, 1830. National Library of Australia.
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9. Corroborree at Newcastle; oil painting
by Joseph Lycett, c. 1820; Oil on cedar panel, State
Library of New South Wales. Note the view of Nobby's Island
in the background. SLNSW notes state: "This painting is
attributed to Joseph Lycett, although it has often said
to have been by Major James Wallis, on the grounds of its
comparative closeness to a plate in Wallis's "Australian
Views" "Corrobborree of dance of the Natives of New South
Wales New Holland". Stylistically it accords with his watercolour
album in the National Library "Drawings of the natives &
scenery of Van Diemens Land, 1830" : see plates such as
"Aborigines resting by camp fire, near the mouth of the
Hunter River, Newcastle, N.S.W". It also resembles
plates in his publication "Views in Australia", London,
1824."
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10. Joseph Lycett, Fishing by torchlight,
other Aborigines beside camp fires cooking fish, watercolour;
17.7 x 27.9 cm. National Library of Australia.
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11. Newcastle. Hunter's River. New South
Wales, c. 1818; line engraving with etching, 44 x 63.3 cm
paper size. State Library of New South Wales. SLNSW notes
state: "It has been suggested that Lycett is the artist
of the original drawing from which this drawing has been
made."
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12. Joseph Lycett, Newcastle, New South
Wales, etching, hand-coloured, 1824. One of an edition of
250. National Gallery of Australia (Australian Prints).
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13. Joseph Lycett, The Sugar Loaf Mountain,
Near New Castle, New South Wales, print: aquatint, hand
col., c. 1820. Pl. no. 21 of: Views in Australia / by Joseph
Lycett.; National Library of Australia, Rex Nan Kivell Collection
NK2707/22
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14. Joseph Lycett, Aborigines Spearing
Eels, watercolour; 27.8 x 17.7 cm. In his: Drawings
of the natives & scenery of Van Diemens Land, 1830.
National Library of Australia.
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