This view of Port Lincoln, on the south coast of Australia, is a finished watercolour version of a subject Westall also did in oil for the Admiralty under the title 'Entrance to Port Lincoln from behind Memory Cove, February 1802' (see ZBA7940). This was was when Westall made the original sketches, during Matthew Flinders' Australian survey voyage of 1801-03. An engraved version was included in Flinders' 'A Voyage to Terra Australis...' (1814), though it remains to be confirmed if the plate was primarily from this drawing or the oil: if the oil - as was mostly the case for other illustrations in the account - then this is a replica. It is mounted with an inscribed sheet, 'Port Lincoln South Coast of Australia', which has been used as a previous title. Like the oil, it was done in England, not on the voyage, probably while Flinders was writing his account from 1810 on. Port Lincoln, later well known as a town exporting grain in the last commercial sailing ships, until just before the Second World War, is on the Eyre Peninsula in the modern state of South Australia. [PvdM 1/18]