Sophia Elau (aged seven years) a female child of the Island of Erromanga ... Drawn from Life & on Stone by Frederick Tatham ...

P3/206

fonds

June 1831, London, 20 Lisson Grove North

Graphic Materials, Prints

151991

1 lithograph - 51 x 37 cm.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Illustrated in 'Portraits of the Famous & Infamous ... ' / Rex Nan Kivell & Sydney Spence (1970), p. 309, entry p. 106. Location number : REF1 F704.942/1 Also reproduced in Hordern House Rare Books Manuscripts Paintings & Prints Voyages, Exploration and Natural History Relating to Australia and the Pacific [catalogue, August 1997], no. 14

See also 'An Account of Elau, a Malayan Papuan Child, Native of the Island of Erromanga ... By George Bennett, M.D., F.L.S. ... Not published. Printed by F. Cunninghame & Co., 146 Pitt Street, Sydney [ca. 1890].

Presentation copy inscribed 'D. Mitchell Esqre from the Author'. With frontispiece of a carte-de-visite photograph of another original portrait of (Sophia) Elau. Location number: 616.38/B Mitchell Library (Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 6933).

Inscribed on the plate beneath image with text from the 'MSS. Journal of Mr George Bennett', describing the capture of (Sophia) Elau and the end of her life in England, including her medical condition.