• Title
  Wambela / watercolour drawing by R. Browne
• Creator
  Richard Browne, 1776-1824
• Call number
  SV/3
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1819
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  52118
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour - 33.6 x 25.0 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A. Atkin also owned a full length portrait by Richard Browne of Wambela cf. Wambla, Sotheby's Melbourne, 15 April 1985 lot 34 and Christies Dallhold Collection Melbourne, 28 July 1992 lot 24, ML REF. P1/WAMBLA. Other full length portraits by Browne are also known cf. Wambella (DG A3 f.5); Wambella, Christie's (South Kensington) Topographical Pictures 28 May 1987 lot 226 (P1/WAMBELLA, 1818); Wambela, National Library of Australia; Wambla, Bernard Quaritch London 1981 lot 8, (PXA 371). A. Atkin of Blackburn, England, an unidentified owner of Wambela, owned 9 Browne watercolours - 8 portraits of Aborigines and 1 drawing of an emu cf. Sotheby's Melbourne 15 April, 1985 lots 32-40.
  Colour transparency digitised 1999
  Digital order no:p2_00026
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  At lower right 'R. Browne del'. At lower left 'N.S. Wales 1819'. Titled at lower centre. Collectors' mark at bottom right 'A. Atkin. Blackburn. No.7'.
• Name
  Wambela
  
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians.
  Aboriginal Australians in art.
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
  A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (September, 1997 - January, 1998)

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