HMS Investigator (1801)
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HMS Investigator was built as the mercantile Fram and launched in 1795. Purchased in 1798 by the Royal Navy she was renamed HMS Xenophon, and then in 1801 converted to a survey ship under the name HMS
20th-century drawing of HMS Investigator.
Matthew Flinders, commander of HMS Investigator.
William Westall
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William Westall was a British landscape artist best known as one of the first artists to work in Australia.
HMS Investigator (1801)
…animal life on the new colony. Attached to the expedition was the botanist Robert Brown, the botanical artist Ferdinand Bauer and the landscape artist William Westall. The Admiralty chose Xenophon for the expedition: her former mercantile role meant that she had a small draught and ample space for supplies, making…
Portrait of William Westall ARA, by his son Robert Westall, c. 1845.
Cape of Good Hope, View at the Foot of Table Mountain, 1801
South Coast: Cape Leeuwin, Cape Chatham and Eclipse Isles, Westall's first sketch of an Australian landscape
Sydney: Government House, 1802