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<p><i><b>View from the South Side of King George's Sound</b></i>, an engraving by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Byrne_(1786-1847)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="John Byrne (1786-1847) (page does not exist)">John Byrne (1786-1847)</a> of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/William_Westall" title="William Westall">William Westall</a>'s 1809–1812 oil-on-canvas painting <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Part_of_King_George_III_Sound,_on_the_South_Coast_of_New_Holland,_December_1801" class="mw-redirect" title="Part of King George III Sound, on the South Coast of New Holland, December 1801">Part of King George III Sound, on the South Coast of New Holland, December 1801</a></i>, which is in turn based upon Westall's 1801 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>.
</p><p>It was first published in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Flinders" class="mw-redirect" title="Matthew Flinders">Matthew Flinders</a>' 1814 <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_voyage_to_Terra_Australis&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="A voyage to Terra Australis (page does not exist)">A voyage to Terra Australis</a></i>, and shortly afterwards republished by Westall in his 1814 <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Views_of_Australian_scenery&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Views of Australian scenery (page does not exist)">Views of Australian scenery</a></i>.
</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.
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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.</div>
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Delineated by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/William_Westall" title="William Westall">William Westall</a> (1781–1850); engraved by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Byrne_(1786-1847)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="John Byrne (1786-1847) (page does not exist)">John Byrne (1786-1847)</a></div>
This scan obtained from <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an7746458">http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an7746458</a>. The image available there has a spurious indexing bar along the bottom. The bar has been removed in this version.