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This is one of the ten paintings of Matthew Flinders' Australian voyage (1801–1803) that the Admiralty had from Westall, as the landscape artist accompanying it (ZBA7914, 7935–7936, 7938–7944): they are usually said to have been commissioned from 1809 and completed over the next three years. This one was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1810 under the title 'Distant view of the Islands of Cape Townsend, from a mountain near Cape Manifold, on the east coast of New Holland, long 150°, lat. 22°, discovered by Capt. M. Flinders etc., March 1802'. (Flinders in fact named the mountain for Westall after saying he would do so for whoever reached the top first, which the latter did.) Cape Townshend is the more usual spelling, the location being on the coast of Queensland.
Title
View of Cape Townshend Taken from Mount Westall, March 1802
Date
c.1809
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 101.6 x W 127 cm
Accession number
ZBA7914
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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