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Wreck of the Porpoise, Flinders Expedition [picture] /

Title
Wreck of the Porpoise, Flinders Expedition [picture] /
Description
Title from inscription on mount bot.c.; Listed as Wreck Reef on p. 63, and reproduced following no. 126, in: Drawings / by William Westall ... London : Royal Commonwealth Society, 1962.; Exhibited: "Blighted Paradise : Colonial visions of Northern Australia", Rockhampton Art Gallery, October - November 2001, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, December 2001 - January 2002.; (ANL) R7062.
Description
Wreck Reef
Creator
Westall, William, 1781-1850.
Subject
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814.
Subject
Porpoise (Ship)
Subject
Cato (Ship)
Subject
Shipwrecks -- Coral Sea.
Publisher
1802 [i.e. 1803]
Image number
nla.pic-an4910322
Format
1 watercolour ; 31.2 x 46 cm.
Managed by
Item held by National Library of Australia
Date or place
Queensland
Date or place
1803
Rights
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