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Author
Weatherburn, A. K.
Title
Evans, George William (1780-1852), surveyor and explorer
In
Australian dictionary of biography, volume 1: 1788 - 1850 A-H
Editor
Douglas Pike
Imprint
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966, pp. 359-360
Url
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010343b.htm
Format
Print
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Published online in 2006.

Abstract

Quote: "As well as being a competent surveyor and a resolute explorer, Evans was an artist of some note. His aquatint view of Hobart in 1820 was published as a frontispiece in his Geographical, Historical and Topographical Description of Van Diemen's Land … (London, 1822; second edition, 1824; and a French edition, Paris, 1823). The original, with another aquatint of Hobart in 1829, is in the Dixson Library of New South Wales, where four of his views of Sydney are also hanging. He appears to have drawn a number of sketches and water-colours, both of the settled areas of the colony and of the interior, when he journeyed with Oxley. "

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