Lot Essay
The first Castle Jetty was erected by van Riebeck in the 1650s and remained the only harbour work in Table Bay for nearly a century. Additional dwarf jetties and the North Jetty were added in the late 1830s and 1840s.
The second son of the sculptor Sir Richard Westmacott, R.A., the artist was at the Cape in 1829-31 as aide-de-camp to Governor Richard Bourke. He went with Bourke to Australia in 1831, and travelled widely in the colony, where he remained Bourke's aide-de-camp, before retiring from the army in 1837. The National Library of Australia holds three volumes of Westmacott's sketches and watercolours 'Drawings from New Zealand', 'Drawings of New South Wales, 1840-46' and 'Drawings of South America, Mauritius, and Other Places', the latter including views taken in Mauritius (1825-26), Brazil (1858), the Mediterranean and Abyssinia. His Sketches in Australia, a series of tinted lithographs, was published in Exeter in 1848, and followed an undated volume of six plates Sketches in New South Wales offered for sale in the Australian in 1838.
The second son of the sculptor Sir Richard Westmacott, R.A., the artist was at the Cape in 1829-31 as aide-de-camp to Governor Richard Bourke. He went with Bourke to Australia in 1831, and travelled widely in the colony, where he remained Bourke's aide-de-camp, before retiring from the army in 1837. The National Library of Australia holds three volumes of Westmacott's sketches and watercolours 'Drawings from New Zealand', 'Drawings of New South Wales, 1840-46' and 'Drawings of South America, Mauritius, and Other Places', the latter including views taken in Mauritius (1825-26), Brazil (1858), the Mediterranean and Abyssinia. His Sketches in Australia, a series of tinted lithographs, was published in Exeter in 1848, and followed an undated volume of six plates Sketches in New South Wales offered for sale in the Australian in 1838.