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Walter Preston was born 1777 and arrived in Sydney in 1812 as a convict artist, transported for high …

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Corrobborree or Dance of the Natives of New South Wales

Hand-coloured copperplate engraving, after Captain James Wallis published 1820, 41 x 58 cm

Australian and European Paintings, Sculpture Books & Prints, Leonard Joel, Melbourne.

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View of Hunter's River, Newcastle, New South Wales, 1918

Engraving, 14 x 22 cm

Paintings From The Dr Joseph Brown Collection, Christies, Melbourne.

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'Kangaroos of New South Wales, View from Seven-Mile Hill, Near Newcastle; & 'Black Swans Of New South Wales, View on Reed's Mistake River.'

Engraving (2), 18 x 26 cm each (image approx.)

Australian & International Art, Davidson Auctions, Sydney.

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