• Title
  Entrance to a Harbour, with Aborigines in a mia-mia, ca. 1845
• Call number
  DL 6
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 172
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1845
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  826237
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 54.6 x 112.5 cm inside frame, 68.5 x 126.5 cm framed
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project 2008-2009
• General note
  
  This painting had previously been attributed to Angas after comparison of the Aboriginal figures depicted with those in Angas' South Australia Illustrated, 1897.
  
  The work has been extensively overpainted at an unknown date.
  
  If by Angas, it is his only known work in oils. The palette used is darker than Angas' usual palette though this could be attributed to working in an unfamiliar medium. The form of the trees, and posture of the foreground figures are atypical of Angas' work. The painting lacks Angas' ethnographic detail and accuracy.
  
  Reference:
  Dr Philip Jones, Curator of Anthropology, South Australian Museum (December 2009)
  
  Copy Print : DL 6
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:a1528335
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  The scene appears to show the coast line of the Illawarra district. For further information see the note filed at DL 6n.
• Date note
  
  Undated
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  harbours
  
• Place
  Illawarra (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3267576

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