Vue d’une partie de la meridianale et de la ville de Sydney, prise du côte du nord

This depiction of Sydney Cove by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur was much along the lines of other imagery produced throughout this period of New South Wales. Akin to propaganda, imagery such as Lesueur’s demonstrated to European audiences the degree to which a purportedly ‘savage’, wild place had been tamed with order and civility.