Cambo [Australian Aborigine from the Segenhoe district, NSW, 1831 (1838-9)] / Thomas Mitchell

P3/207

fonds

1831 (1838-9). Dated from original drawing by Mitchell, now in the Dixson Library, ref. ZDLPXX 21, f. 1, and from printed versions of 1838-9

Graphic Materials, Prints

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Prints - 2 handcoloured proof lithographs - 1 uncoloured lithograph ; 27.2 x 19 cm., or smaller - The former frame (wood, with gilded gesso and moulded corners) is now stored at F348. Please see Pictures Section staff for access

P3/207a (handcoloured) and P3/207c (uncoloured) are proof lithographs for the first edition of Thomas Mitchell's Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia ... London: T. & W. Boone, 1838 (ref. DL 83/248, location : Sir William Dixson Reading Room). Although numbered 'Pl. 4', it was bound as the frontispiece. Other printed inscriptions are left to right beneath image 'Major T.L. Mitchell delt.'; 'G. Foggo lith.'; J. Graf, Printer to her Majesty'; then centre 'Cambo.'; and beneath 'Published by T. & W. Boone , London.'.;
P3/207b is a handcoloured lithograph from the second edition of 1839 (ref. 981/2B1, location : Mitchell Library). There are minor variations of punctuation in the title and imprint. The plate number has been changed to 'Pl. 1';

Mitchell's original pencil drawing of Cambo, done in 1831, as he describes on pages 20-1 of Three expeditions ... is now in the Dixson Library, ref. ZDL PXX 21, f. 1
A copy of this drawing was done by William Romaine Govett. For a photographic reproduction of the original (in private hands), see PXB 95, f. 1, location : Sir William Dixson Reading Room

Each print has printed title and imprint, beneath image, as issued. P3/207a has pencil annotations, left, by Mitchell indicating changes to be made to the lithography and colouring