#lycett

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Some more Lycett!

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Here she is! My Stellamore MC Lycett Udugo! My lil oracle bub!

Lycett has platinum white hair. she likes to keep it short but not too short she can’t tie it back

Her eyes are a light lime green that shine gold under the sunlight

She is pretty much covered in freckles but none of them cover her neck or collar. She doesn’t know why

She has a beauty spot above her right eyebrow

The scar over her left eye was the result of a case of bad timing from a vision. She stopped suddenly in the path of someone not to be messed with. She was lucky to keep sight in her eye.

Her nose is pierced twice! She got both done with her older brother, as a symbol of rebellion against their parents.

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Joseph Lycett (1774-1828) England/ Australia/ England

Aborigines Using Fire to Hunt Kangaroos

Aborigines Kangaroo Hunting

An Aborigine Climbing a Tree by Cutting Steps in the Trunk

Parramatta New South Wales (1824)

View of the Female Orphan School near Parramatta New South Wales (1824)

Distant View of Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land from Blufhead (1825) [Views: hand-watercoloured aquatints]

Views in Australia ... (1824) nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1022559244/view#

The residence of Edward Riley Esquire, Wooloomooloo, Near Sydney N. S. W. (1825)

library.gov.au Joseph Lycett (c. 1775–1828) was born in Staffordshire, England, and trained as a portrait and miniature painter. In 1811, he was convicted of forgery and sentenced to 14 years of transportation to Australia. Arriving in Sydney in 1814, Lycett initially worked as a clerk under a ticket of leave. However, in 1815, he was caught forging again and sent to Newcastle to work in the coal mines. His artistic talent was soon recognized by Captain James Wallis, who put Lycett to work creating plans for a church and painting an altarpiece.

By 1820, Lycett was back in Sydney, making a living as a painter. His work caught the attention of Governor Macquarie and his wife, Elizabeth, who became his patrons. Lycett also painted views of Tasmania, though it’s uncertain if he ever visited the island—he may have based his artwork on the sketches of others. In 1821, Lycett received an absolute pardon, allowing him to return to England the following year.

Once back in England, Lycett printed and published two large lithographs of Sydney and Hobart in 1823. He followed this with his famous series, Views in Australia, released in twelve parts between 1824 and 1825, dedicated to Lord Bathurst, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Little is known about Lycett’s later years, except that he died in Birmingham in 1828. His detailed views of early colonial Australia remain significant records of the time.

In 1950, two watercolours by Lycett, depicting scenes of Hobart, were purchased from the London antiquarian booksellers Maggs Brothers. The 1959 acquisition of the Nan Kivell Collection included 18 of Lycett's watercolours. In 1972, an album of watercolours - mostly illustrating Aboriginal people of the Newcastle region - was bought at a Sotheby's sale in London. This album had previously belonged to the La Trobe family, having been acquired by Charles La Trobe, son of the Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, in 1872.

abc.net.au An unknown album of Lycett's work surfaced unexpectedly in a London auction house in 1972. It comprised 20 watercolours illustrating the Awabakal, Worimi and Eora people of Newcastle and Sydney around the 1820s. The Australian National Library purchased the album and it has been given highest priority in the Australia's National Archives since.

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Joseph Lycett (1774-1825) born in England, transported to New South Wales 1814

1 Aborigines spearing fish, others diving for crayfish, a party seated beside a fire cooking Fish (1817)  watercolour

2 Fishing by Torchlight (1819) watercolour

A     abc.net.au     For years, an album of remarkable Australian paintings languished in a second-hand book shop in London. It was the work of Joseph Lycett—a convicted English forger who was transported to New South Wales in the early nineteenth century.

The National Library of Australia stepped in and bought the book. It's now been given the highest priority in the National Archives.

On his arrival in Sydney in 1814, Joseph Lycett was seconded by Captain James Wallis in Newcastle to illustrate the new settlement with the hope of attracting migrants. Lycett also closely observed the Indigenous people.

The Lycett Album, consisting of 20 watercolours, observes in detail the cultural practices of the Awabakal people of the Newcastle region. It depicts activities, daily life and interactions that had not previously been recorded, and have since disappeared.

 B    Linda Groom      nla.gov.au

One of the items of considerable significance in the National Library’s Pictures Collection is the bound volume commonly referred to as ‘the Lycett Album’. It contains twenty watercolours painted prior to 1828 by Joseph Lycett (c. 1775-1828).

Although a number of European artists of the early colonial period, such as Nicolas Martin-Petit and Richard Browne, made portraits of Aborigines, it is rare to find paintings that show the daily life of Aborigines. Among Lycett’s watercolours are the only known depictions from the period of Aborigines engaged in activities such as spearing eels and eating meat from beached whales.

Early colonial Australia did not attract many professional artists; most paintings prior to the 1820s were made by convicts or naval officers. Joseph Lycett was a convict, transported for forgery. During his time in Australia from 1814 to 1822, he was given freedom to work as a clerk and as an artist, except for one year of hard labour in the coal mines at Newcastle . He came into contact with Aborigines on at least one documented occasion when he was wounded in an attack by them.

Lycett’s skills as a forger carried over into his art. Two of the watercolours in the Lycett album appear to have been partly copied by Lycett from other works.