• Title
  Prince Giolo ... / Etching by John Savage of Prince Giolo ca. 1692
• Creator
  John Savage, active 1680-1700
• Call number
  V/42
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1692 (dated from time of William Dampier's return to England)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  153334
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - etching - 30.3 x 27.5 cm image; 37.8 x 27.8 cm sheet
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  William Dampier purchased Giolo in Mindanao, the Philipinnes, in 1690 and took him to England in late 1691, where he was sold to business interests who exhibited him in London as a curiosity (see Dampier's "New Voyage round the World", 1697, p.549). Giolo was later sent to Oxford, again for exhibition where he died of smallpox. For further information see Geraldine Barnes "Curiosity, wonder and William Dampier's painted prince", Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol.6 No.1, 2006, pp.31-50
  A reversed and smaller version of this print was published as the frontispiece to Thomas Hyde's "An Account of the Famous Prince Giolo", London, 1692. A microfilm copy of this text is in roll 188 of "Early English Books 1641-1700" State Reference Library RAV/FM4/57
  Dampier noted that 'Romantick stories' circulated in England which held that Giolo's tattoos repelled venomous creatures ("A New Voyage ...", p.517). These creatures can be seen, fleeing, in the print.
  Colour transparency digitised 1998
  Digital order no:a1528388
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  title, engraved beneath image, continues "Son to ye King of Moangis or Gilolo: lying under the Equator in the Long. of 152 Deg. 30 Min, a fruitful Island abounding with rich Spices and other valuable Commodities..." This is followed by further explanatory text
  at lower left of image "I Savage Sculpt"
  at bottom of sheet "Sold by Joseph Medley"
• Name
  Dampier, William, 1652-1715.
  Giolo, Prince of Gilolo
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  exhibits
  human curiosities
  sideshows
  tattoos (skin)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (9 March - 16 June, 2010)

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