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The painting depicts the moment Governor Phillip (in the centre of the painting) proposed a toast to King George III, on the evening of 26 January 1788, the day that the Fleet moved from Botany Bay to Sydney Cove. The painting is a celebration of righteousness and importance of colonisation, and a statement of the power of the British Empire. [7]
Sydney Cove is a focal point for community celebrations, due to its central Sydney location between the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Sydney Cove was the site of the First Fleet's landing on 26 January 1788 and the subsequent raising of the Union Jack, a seminal date in Australian history now marked as Australia Day. Sydney ...
The association of this painting with Thomas Watling has long been debated. Arguments for and against Watling being the artist of the works were published in the Bulletin, April 30, June 4, and June 18, 1977, and October 17, 1978, and in First views of Australia 1788-1825 : a history of early Sydney.
The Port Jackson Painter was one or more unknown watercolour artists working in Sydney, Australia, from 1788 through to the 1790s. The paintings are of plants, animals and life in Sydney. [1] Many believe that they were the naval officers of the time who had both the time and the training to paint the new environment around them.
Sydney Cove and Old Government House, Port Jackson, 1808 Government House, Sydney, 1836, Charles Rodius Old Government House in the 1840s. The abode of the first Governor of New South Wales, Captain Arthur Phillip, was a structure made of canvas and timber brought from England with the First Fleet and erected in January 1788. First Government ...
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The First Fleet: the real story. Collingwood: Black Inc. ISBN 9781863955614. Gillen, Mollie (1989). The Founders of Australia: a Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet. Sydney: Library of Australian History. ISBN 978-0908120697. Hill, David (2008). 1788: the brutal truth of the First Fleet: the biggest single migration the world had ever ...
Map of Sydney Cove published 24 July 1789. The First Fleet of 11 ships under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Botany Bay in January 1788. It consisted of more than a thousand settlers, including 736 convicts. [17] The fleet soon moved to the more suitable Port Jackson where a settlement was established at Sydney Cove on 26 ...