• Title
  Real Life in Sydney
• Call number
  B 1106
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1838
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  411394
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 4432, frame 18 (Real Life in Sydney lithograph, c.1838: B 1106)
  
• Physical Description
  1 prints - lithograph - 28 x 22.5 cm
  
• General note
  
  The lithograph is tipped into the front of a manuscript letterbook, 1834-1856, compiled by Rev. John Saunders, a Baptist Minister and temperance advocate, who was in Sydney, 1834-1847.
  
  The fighting couple in this image, and the child, also appear in John Carmichael's etching "Male and Female Black Natives", which was published in James Maclehose's "Picture of Sydney; and Stranger's Guide in New South Wales", Sydney 1838.
  Artist unknown.
  Digital order no:a4936001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  A five stanza poem, complaining of the effects of alcohol on Aboriginal people, is written on the lithograph.
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  Aboriginal Australians.
  
• Topic
  alcohol abuse
  colonial art
  liquor
  street scenes
  
• Place
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3310927

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