[Pearson, Robert (Captain)], fl 1836-1840 :View of Encounter Bay with the fisheries. [Drawn by Captain Pearson] On zinc by G. F. Bragg. 7 Thavies Inn [Holborn, London]. Printed by C. Chabot, [December 1838 or January 1839]

A view looking down into a bay near Adelaide, with huts and houses, including fishery buildings on the shore, and three ships between two small islands and the shore. One ship, the three-masted Solway is shown wrecked on a reef. One, probably as the two-masted John Pirie, is sheltering alongside Wright's Island. The third, probably the three-masted barque South Australian, is beached in the background close to the shore.

Attribution: Was attributed by the Library from the time of accession in the 1980s until 2010 to William Light on the basis of its similarity to A-096-048, which appears to be from the same publication. However the style appears more naive than that of Light, the topography is not accurate, and there is no known original attributed to Light for this image. A hand-coloured copy of a later state of the same print on sale at The Antique Print Room, 455 George Street, Sydney, 2009, includes a printed statement, lower left, beneath the image, absent from the Library's copy: 'Drawn by Captain Pearson', probably Captain R Pearson of the Solway, wrecked at Encounter Bay in December 1837

Location: Encounter Bay is south of Adelaide.

Extended Title - From: Stephens, John. Land of promise by 'One who is going there' (London, Smith Elder and Co, 1939)

Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).

Physical Description: Lithograph, 100 x 168 mm

trimmed to edges. On acquisition by the Library was attached with A-096-045, A-096-046, and A-096-048 to the verso of A-096-044-a