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March 30, 2012
Whilst I've been staying in Tunbridge and photographing the region I've been digging into the history of representations of Tunbridge and the Tasmanian Midlands. Martin Walch mentioned this one of the Landscape of plains around present-day Tunbridge looking north.
Joseph Lycett, Salt pan plain, Tunbridge, Van Diemen's Land,1824, etching and aquatint, printed in black ink, from one copper plate; hand-coloured.
Lycett worked as a professional portrait and miniature painter. Like fellow convict, Francis Greenway, Lycett was convicted of forgery and transported to Australia for a term of fourteen years. He carved out a successful career as a landscape painter in Australia after receiving a conditional pardon.
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