Author:William Westall

William Westall
(1781–1850)

William Westall

Works

• Westall to Banks, January 31 1804

Works illustrated by Westall

Westall's illustrations have appeared in the following works:

• Westall, William (1811), Foreign scenery
• Flinders, Matthew (1814), A Voyage to Terra Australis, Volume II.
• Westall, William (1814), Views of Australian scenery
• Ackermann, Rudolf (1816), History of Rugby School
• Westall, William (1818), Views of the caves near Ingleton, Gordale Scar, and Malham Cove, in Yorkshire
• Westall, William et al. (1822), Britannia Delineata
• Ackermann, Rudolf (1825), Ackerman's Repository
• Grindlay, Robert (1826–1830), Scenery, Costumes and Architecture of India (3 volumes)
• Murray, John Fisher (1828), A picturesque tour of the river Thames in its western course
• Jaffray, James (1829), Graphic Illustrations of Warwickshire
• Westall, William (1830), The landscape album, or, Great Britain illustrated.

Posthumous:

• Clark, John Willis and Hughes, Thomas McKenny (1890), The Life and Letters of Adam Sedgwick 1
  • Contains six illustrations by Westall
• Westall, William; Perry, T. M. and Simpson, Donald. H. (eds.) (1960), Drawings by William Westall, landscape artist on board H.M.S. Investigator during the circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N., in 1801-1803.
• Wordsworth, Dorothy (1987), Dorothy Wordsworth's Illustrated Lakeland Journals
  • Contains two engravings based on drawings by Westall.

Works about Westall

In the public domain

• Westall, Robert (1850), "William Westall" in Art Journal 12:104–105.
• Redgrave, Samuel (1878), "Westall, William, A.R.A." in A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: 466.
• "Westall, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• Boosé, James R. (1894), "The library of the Royal Colonial Institute" in The library: a magazine of bibliography and library literature 6:191–206.
  • Discusses the circumstances of the Royal Colonial Institute's acquisition of Westall's Investigator voyage field sketches.
• Boosé, James R. (1928), Memory serving: being reminiscences of fifty years of the Royal Colonial Institute.
  • Discusses the circumstances of the Royal Colonial Institute's acquisition of Westall's Investigator voyage field sketches.

Still under copyright

• Smith, Bernard (1960), "William Westall" in European Vision and the South Pacific
• Perry, T. M. and Simpson, Donald H. (editors) (1962). Drawings by William Westall, landscape artist on board H.M.S. Investigator during the circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N., in 1801-1803. London: Royal Commonwealth Society. 
• Reinits, Rex and Reinits, Thea (1963), Chapter 4: "William Westall", in Early artists of Australia.
• Findlay, Elizabeth (1998), Arcadian quest: William Westall's Australian sketches.
• Westall, Richard J. (1992), "William Westall in Australia", in Art and Australia 20(2):252-256.
• Monteath, Peter (2002). "Contradictory Encounters: William Westall in Australia". In Chittleborough, Anne, Dooley, Gillian, Glover, Brenda, and Hosking, Rick (editors). Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin & Beyond. Wakefield Press. pp. 47–56. ISBN 1862546037. 
• Thomas, S. (2002). "'Beautiful to the Eye or Interesting to Science': The Conundrum of Natural History Art". The Encounter 1802: Art of the Flinders and Baudin Voyages. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia. 
• Stehn, Kay and George, Alex (2005). "William Westall". In Wege, Juliet et al.. Matthew Flinders and his Scientific Gentlemen. Western Australian Museum. ISBN 1920843205.