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VUE DE LA RADE DE SYDNEY ET DU FORT MACQUARIE of the buildings in the immediate foreground by 1802, and they
JANUARY remained for many years among Sydney’s most impressive
structures.
In 1838 the French vessel the ‘Venus’ put into Port Jackson, and its Captain,
Du Petit-Thouars, was filled with admiration at the flourishing city which had Fort Macquarie is visible in the centre of the scene. This square stone
developed there. This impression of Sydney Cove is a lithograph after building, mounting 15 guns, was manned until 1902, when it was
Romuald-Georges Menard. Menard together with Louis-Jules Masselot demolished and replaced by a turreted tramway depot bearing the
produced a pictorial record of the voyage which formed the basis of same name. Today the Sydney Opera House dominates this point.
illustrations accompanying Du Petit-Thouars’ published account. Several The Domain stretches back to the left of the Fort, devoid of its
variations of this scene exist, and Menard’s work is possibly after an earlier kangaroos and emus by this time, and transformed by Mrs.
work by Charles Rodius. Macquarie into “a most extensive and elegant shrubbery” interwoven
The artist was standing above Robert Campbell’s extensive property, with walks and carriage drives. Pinchgut Island lies to the right of the
looking towards the Heads from the western side of Sydney Cove. Fort, and Macquarie Light on South Head can be seen in the
Campbell, Australia’s first fully established merchant, had completed some distance.
