The four pre-stamped envelopes depict a View of Sydney from the West Side of the Cove, No.1 & No.2 by John Eyre.
Eyre was sentenced in 1799 to seven years transportation for housebreaking and arrived in Sydney in 1801 aboard the Canada. He was granted a conditional pardon in June 1804 and advertised in the Sydney Gazette in the same year that he wished to buy a box of watercolours.
In 1807 Governor Bligh employed him to transfer three charts of Port Dalrymple into one single chart. To make ends meet he was also employed to paint numbers on all the buildings east of the Tank Stream at sixpence a time. Eyre left the colony in early 1813.
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- Date of Issue: 13 April 1988
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- Designer: Sandra Baker, Australia Post Graphic Design Studio
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- 37c Sydney Cove 1803-1808
- 37c Sydney Cove 1793-1808
- 37c Sydney & Parramatta 1793-1808
- 37c Sydney 1803-1808
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