• Title
  [Sketches of Aborigines of New South Wales, ca. 1836 / attributed to W.H. Fernyhough]
• Creator
  W. H. Fernyhough, 1809-1849
• Call number
  DL PX 47
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1836
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  442795
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album with marbled covers (8 pencil drawings) - 23.4 x 14.7 cm. (sketchbook) ; 24.5 x 15.6 x 1 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Thomas Hatfield was a sketcher who visited Sydney in 1838-1839. Identified as "T.S.H", he was also known as "Hatfull" and may be the artist whose surname appears on the front of the notebook. -- Reference: Dictionary of Australian Artists / by Joan Kerr. Melb, Vic : Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Scope and Content
  1. Piper. The Native who accompanied Major Mitchell, to the Interior of the Country.
  2. Cullabaa. / Native of Lake George. Five Islands Tribe.
  3. Punch. / Wife of Cullabaa, Broken Bay Tribe.
  4. Bungaree. Late Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe, near Sidney [i.e. Sydney]
  5. Gooseberry. / Widow of King Bungaree.
  6. Mickie. / Lake Macquarie, Newcastle Tribe
  7. Mary. / Botany Bay, Tribe.
  8. Boardman. / Lake Macquarie Tribe.
  
  Stored in rectangular box with hinged lid and beige coloured cloth cover.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The drawings are unsigned and undated.
  Previously attributed to Charles Rodius, presumably by A.H. Spencer, the bookseller responsible for the hardcover casing of the sketchbook.
  The date and attribution are derived from comparison with W.H. Fernyhough's, "A series of twelve profile portraits ..." Sydney: J.G. Austin & Co. No.12 Bridge Street, 1836 (Mitchell Library Q 572.991/1A1-5 and Dixson Library Q 83/44-48) from which these drawings appear to be based, though some of the titles and details differ.
  Other drawings of Nos. 2-6 are located at SAFE/PXA 615 Mitchell Library.
  Affixed inside lid of presentation box is a paper label, "A.H. Spencer Pty. Ltd. / New Secondhand, and Rare / Booksellers / 86 Bourke St., Melbourne ..."
  Sir William Dixson bookplate inside front cover of box.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823410
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Handwritten in black in on front of notebook, "Hatful / Nov 1..."
  "Rodius's Sketch Book" embossed on spine of case for volume.
  Drawings are titled in ink at lower edge.
• Name
  Boardman
  Cullabaa
  Mickie
  Piper
  Punch
  
• Subject
  Gooseberry, Cora
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  Portraits.
  Women, Aboriginal Australian.
  Bungaree, -1830
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  boomerangs
  cloaks
  guns (small arms)
  kingplates
  rugs (blankets)
  silhouettes
  uniforms
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Mari Nawi : Aboriginal Odysseys 1790-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (20 September - 12 December, 2010). Applies to: no.8
  Dead Central - State Library of New South Wales (19th Dec 2019-3 May 2020)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1077989

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