JOSEPH LYCETT
1775-1828

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

JOSEPH LYCETT

1775-1828
Eliza Point showing Captain Piper's Naval Villa and Garden (circa 1820)

watercolour and gouache on paper
40.6 x 54.7 cm

• Lot Sold $180,000 (Hammer Price)
• $219,600 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Sir Reginald Marcus Clark, Sydney
Catalogue of a most important collection of Australian paintings, drawings and prints to be sold by auction ... under instructions from and as directed by the executors of the will of the late Sir Reginald Marcus Clark, K.B.E. and Lady Clark, James R. Lawson, Sydney, 15 June 1954, lot 89
Dr. W. Gerald Holt, Melbourne
Australian Paintings, Christie's, Melbourne, 1 March 1973, lot 241, 'Eliza Point', illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Joseph Lycett: Convict Artist, Museum of Sydney, 1 April-18 June 2006; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 8 July - 27 August 2006; National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1 March - 11 June 2007, no. 39, illustrated

Literature

John McPhee, Joseph Lycett: Convict Artist, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Sydney, 2006, pp. 125, 132 (illustrated)