Abstract
During my investigations into the life and times of Robert Marsh Westmacott (Aide-de-Camp to Governor Bourke from 1832 to 1837; artist and settler in Illawarra from 1837 to 1847), a somewhat mysterious figure like so many of our early colonial artists, I have encountered a number of variations of his published collection of eighteen tinted lithographs plus descriptive text, entitled Sketches in Australia. The question arose: is the work a true 'book' or merely a collection of lithographs? The bibliographic details for this work are described by Ferguson, 4955. However my studies have revealed a number of important variations of his description.
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Publication Details
Organ, M.K., Bibliographic notes on Captain R.M. Westmacott's "Sketches in Australia", Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries, 11(3), September 1986, 79-81.