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<p><i><b>Part of King George III Sound, on the South Coast of New Holland, December 1801</b></i> by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/William_Westall" title="William Westall">William Westall</a>.
</p><p>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.
</p><p>It depicts <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=King_George_Sound&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="King George Sound (page does not exist)">King George Sound</a> on the south coast of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a>. Specifically, it is a view looking north-north-west from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peak_Head&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Peak Head (page does not exist)">Peak Head</a>, across <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torndirrup&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Torndirrup (page does not exist)">Torndirrup</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vancouver_Peninsula&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Vancouver Peninsula (page does not exist)">Vancouver Peninsula</a> towards the mainland. The people in the foreground are <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Australian_Aborigines&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Australian Aborigines (page does not exist)">Australian Aborigines</a>, stylised according to the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_savage&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Noble savage (page does not exist)">noble savage</a> tradition.
</p><p>The shrub on the left is <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Macrozamia_riedlei" title="Macrozamia riedlei">Macrozamia riedlei</a></i>; the shrub in the centre is <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banksia_verticillata" class="mw-redirect" title="Banksia verticillata">Banksia verticillata</a></i>. The tree just right of centre is a <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus" title="Eucalyptus">Eucalyptus</a></i>; on the right is the grass-tree <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kingia_australis&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Kingia australis (page does not exist)">Kingia australis</a></i>, then a group of <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Xanthorrhoea_preissii" title="Xanthorrhoea preissii">Xanthorrhoea preissii</a></i> grass-trees.
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This painting is based on Westall's field sketch <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/King_George%27s_Sound,_View_from_Peak_Head" class="mw-redirect" title="King George's Sound, View from Peak Head">King George's Sound, View from Peak Head</a></i>, and was itself the basis of the engraving <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/View_from_the_south_side_of_King_George%27s_Sound" class="mw-redirect" title="View from the south side of King George's Sound">View from the south side of King George's Sound</a></i>.</div>
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<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/William_Westall" title="William Westall">William Westall</a></div>
between 1809 and 1812 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1809-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1812-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
Cropped from the ebook version of Findlay, Elizabeth (1988) <i>Arcadian Quest</i>, available online at www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/Arcadian%20Quest.pdf. The <i>Arcadian Quest</i> acknowledge the image as obtained from transparency provided by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.