• Title
  Portraits of the Aborigines of New South Wales Sydney, 1843
• Call number
  SAFE/PXA 74
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1843, 1846-1849
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints
• Reference code
  423578
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (13 items) - 33.8 x 26.8 cm.
  6 drawings - pencil - 28 x 28 cm. or smaller
  1 drawing - watercolour on paper - 28 x 22.5 cm.
  5 prints - lithographs - 30.3 x 30.3 cm. or smaller
  Drawings - printed, 1 map - 24.6 x 30.4 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  i. [Title page with pencil sketches]
  Drawings
  1. William Minam [Minan ?] Walamata Port Aitken
  2. [Aborigines fighting. Three Aboriginal men bearing weapons]
  3. Munduck from Port Adelaide
  4. [Aboriginal man in European dress with rifle]
  5. Johnny Crook Yunbai Nat. [ie. Native] Name Five Island
  Illustrations
  6. Port Jackson. From Vaucluse. No. 1 / drawn by I. Ellis, printed by Liley. Lithograph
  7. Borronia [ie. Boronia] Ledifolia. common Native Rose. Watercolour
  Lithographs
  8. ["Charley"] Spearing Kangaroos
  10. Black Fellows. Planographic lithograph
  12. Fort Macquarie. From the Harbour. No. 2 / drawn by I. Ellis, printed by T. Liley
  14. Dr. Leichhardt, 1846 / stamped with initials, "CR" [Charles Rodius]
  15. General map / of / Australia / shewing [ie. showing] Leichardts [ie. Leichhardt] track & Sturt / and Mitchells furthest north
  Note pages 9, 11, 13, 16-19 are blank
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This volume was compiled with the intention of publication and was presented to Sir Thomas Mitchell
  No. 2 [Aborigines fighting], attributed to William Nicholas, by Curator of Pictures, Mitchell Library
  No. 5 is similar to, "Johnny Crook. Native Name 'Yunbai', from Illawarra / E.D. Barlow. Bridge Street", ca. 1844 at SPF P1/Crook Mitchell Library
  Nos. 6 and 12 are companion pieces. Their publication was noted in the Chronicle (Sydney) on 18 April 1843.
  No. 8 ["Charley"] Spearing Kangaroos, 1847 / illustration attributed to Tufts and published with Yarra-Guinea in, "Frank Kennedy, the Australian Settler, Sydney, 1847"
  No. 10, Black Fellows, attributed to Thomas Balcombe and dated 1849 (from handwritten inscription beneath image, "Phillipe de Vigors Sept. 21st 1849") from a print held in the National Gallery of Australia (accn. no. 86.2229)
  No. 14 has been imprinted by No. 15 "General map of Australia..."
  Volume was rebound in July 1933
  D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824089
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most drawings are titled in pencil at lower right
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Balcombe, T. (Thomas), 1810-1861
  Ellis, J., active approximately 1840's
  Liley, T., active approximately 1840
  Nicholas, William, ca. 1807-1854
  Rodius, Charles, 1802-1860
  
• Name
  Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  boronias
  botanical illustrations
  clubs (weapons)
  colonial art
  
  portraits
  rugs (blankets)
  shields (weapons)
  
• Place
  Fort Macquarie (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Port Jackson (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (5 June - 13 August, 2006). Applies to: f.1 and f.4
  Mari Nawi : Aboriginal Odysseys 1790-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (September 2010 - December 2010). Applies to: nos. 1; 4
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3166037

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