• Title
  [Tasmanian Aborigines and landscapes, ca. 1835-1836 / etchings by B. Duterrau]
• Creator
  Benjamin Duterrau, 1767-1851
• Call number
  PXA 3168
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1835-1836
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints, Textual Records
• Reference code
  442839
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Prints - 10 etchings on sheets stored in four-flap folder - 30.3 x 29.2 cm. or smaller (prints) ; 39.2 x 36.3 cm. (folder)
  Textual Records - (typescript) 1 page with additional manuscript notes - 25.2 x 20.5 cm., on sheet 37.8 x 34.3 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. The small outline / of a / National Picture / described. / Mr Robinson in the middle of the group treating with the wild natives, / in his bush dress /... [typescript explanatory notes of No.2]
  2. [The small outline of a National Picture, or The Conciliation], 1835 / Augt. 24, 1835 / Bm. Duterrau
  3. Tanleboueyer / A native of the district of Oyster bay & the Wife to Manalargerna / was attach'd to the mission in 1830 / Bm. Duterrau
  4. Truggernana / A native of the southern part of V.D. land & Wife to Woureddy / was attach'd to the mission in 1829 / Bm. Duterrau
  5. Manalarganer [or Nanalargerna] / A celebrated chieftain of the east coast of V.D. Land one of Wm. Robinson's / faithful attendants attach'd to the mission in 1831 / Augt. 24 1835 / Bm. Duterrau
  6. Woureddy / A wild native of Brune Island one of Wm. Robinson's most faithful / attendants attach'd to the mission in 1829 / Augt. 24, 1835 / Bm. Duterrau
  7. A Kangaroo caught by a Wild Native Dog, / The Native then seizes the Kangaroo & kills it with his Waddy / March 23, 1836 / B. Duterrau
  8. Hobart Town, as seen from the top of Mount Nelson
  9. A View of Hobart Town taken from Kangaroo Point
  10. A Wild Native taking a Kangaroo, his Dog having caught it, he runs to kill it with his Waddy / March 23 1836, B. Duterrau
  11. Storm Bay as seen from the Top of Mount Nelson
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  No.1 has an with additional handwritten note beneath typescript regarding the identity of persons in No.2 and is initialled, "M.P"
  No.2 is similar, though differs, an oil painting by B. Duterrau titled, "The Conciliation", (held in The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart refer to the reproduction in B. Smith, "Australian painting, 1788-1970, Melbourne: O.U.P. 1971, p.50 ML ref. 759.29/12B1).
  Nos. 8, 9, 11. The publications details are missing from these prints but can be found in C. Craig, "The Engravers of Van Diemen's Land", Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961, p.57 (ML ref. 769.29/1A2).
  Other copies of Nos. 1-7 and 10 are located in the volume, "The Aborigines of Tasmania A Series of Original Etchings and Sketches ..." (PXA 2004 Mitchell Library). Additional copes of portraits of Nos. 2-6 are located at, "Tasmanian sketches, including portraits of Aborigines, ca. 1835" (PXA 613 Mitchell Library).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1060941
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Printed titles at lower edge beneath image.
  Many have artist and publication details printed beneath image, "Design'd etch'd & publish'd by Bm. Duterrau"
  No.1 is dated "July 15th 1835"
  Three are dated "Augt. 24 1835"
  Two are dated, "Augt. 24 1836"
• Name
  Manalarganer
  Robinson, George Augustus, 1791-1866
  Tanleboueyer
  Timmy
  Truganini (1803-1876)
  Woureddy
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  bays
  cloaks
  dogs
  hides (skins)
  hunting
  kangaroos
  landscapes (artwork)
  missionaries
  necklaces
  portraits
  race relations
  Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Hobart (Tas.)
  Storm Bay (Tas.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1079668

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