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FREMANTLE 1894
JULY
This view of Fremantle, Western Australia, looks over the Port from Until the 1850’s Fremantle was an important whaling centre. For many
Monument Hill and shows Rottnest, Garden and Carnac Islands in the years communication with Perth was by river and it was not until 1881
distance and the mouth of the Swan River on the right. that the rail link was completed.
The first settlers landed at Fremantle in 1829, a few months before The gaol, at the centre left hand side of this lithograph, was built by
Perth was chosen as the site for the main settlement. convicts in the 1850’s and is still in use. Several of the houses in front of
it can still be seen today as can the two houses in the foreground on the
As Western Australia progressed it was clear that the port would have
to be improved. After much debate about the development of the right.
mouth of the river, the harbour was opened in 1897 and has rapidly Little is known about the artist A. C. Cooke except that he painted in
developed ever since. Western Australia around 1894 and is represented in the Western
Australian Art Gallery. His pictures in the Gallery show him to be an
accomplished water-colourist.
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