Walter Preston b. 1777

Also known as Walter Presston, William Preston
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Walter Preston was engraver and convict. In 1811 he was sentenced to death for highway robbery at the Middlesex Assizes, London but was transported to Australia instead.
creator of
View of Part of the Town of Parramatta in New South Wales taken from the North Side of the River

Sydney: A. West, 1812, engraving, Pictorial Collection (S1963), reproduced in Beatrice Spence, “The 'Official’ Image: Print Culture in Early Colonial Australia”, National Library of Australia (NLA) News, May 2000, 4.