• Title
  Billy Blue "The Old Commodore"
• Creator
  Charles Rodius, 1802-1860
• Call number
  DL Pe 4
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1834
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  411358
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Prints - copper plate engraving - plate mark 26.5 x 21 cm. on sheet 38.3 x 28.1 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Image is the same size as DL Pd 17, but plate size differs.
  "That talented draftsman, Mr Rodius, has completed a most excellent picture of ... Billy Blue ... It is a copper plate engraving ...the likeness altogether is most remarkable." -- Sydney Gazette, 26 Jul. 1834, p. 2.
  Digital order no:a1528883
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Printed at lower right "C Rodius / 1834". Publisher's imprint "Goddard. Publisher. Sydney"
  Stamp, "W.D" in red ink, of Sir William Dixson, in lower left corner.
• Name
  Blue, William, 1767?-1834
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  boatmen
  colonial art
  convicts
  eccentrics
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3155592

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