found: New South Wales. View of Sydney, from the west side of the cove. No 1, 1810:print, recto (J. Eyre del)
found: View of the seat of Woolloomoola [i.e. Woolloomooloo], near Sydney, in New South Wales, 1813:print, recto (drawn by J. Eyre)
found: National Library of Australia online catalogue, 23 June 2014(hdg.: Eyre, J. (John), 1771-)
found: Australian Dictionary of Biography, viewed online 23 June 2014(John Eyre, born 1771, convict and artist, was born at Coventry, England; he is thought to have studied drawing under Joseph Barnes of Coventry; at Coventry Assizes on 23 March 1799 he was sentenced to transportation for seven years for housebreaking, and reached Sydney in the transport Canada in December 1801; he was granted a conditional pardon on 4 June 1804 and a month later he advertised that he would buy a box of water-colours; tThe first of his drawings which can be dated accurately were made soon afterwards; on 15 August 1812 Eyre advertised his intention of leaving the colony; nothing is known of him after he left Sydney; he was essentially a topographical illustrator, and his work in this field was at times very competent, being drawn with precision and insistence on detail)
