• Title
  [Corroboree] / Drawn by Wm. Curtis. April 1847. Wellington N.S. Wales
• Creator
  William Curtis
• Call number
  ML 1374
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1847
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  446586
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pen - on card 21 x 25 cm., in wooden frame 35.6 x 39.4 cm. (contemporary frame)
  
• Collection history
  Provenance: Jardine family, Toowoomba, Queensland.
• Scope and Content
  This drawing depicts a corroboree of Wiradjuri people, observed by two Europeans who are sitting in the foreground. The dancers (at left) seem to be wearing full tribal markings, the figures to the right appear to be variously dressed, possibly including government issue blankets.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Artist William Curtis is represented by other drawings in the Library's collections including sketches illustrating the Diary of a geological and mineralogical survey of the Colony of New South Wales during the years 1850-1853 by Samuel Stutchbury, Geologist to the Colonial Government (A 2639); and Drawings of trees and geological features in the Liverpool Plains, Macquarie River District and Warrumbungle Range, 1852-1853 (DG*D 29). See also Curtis entry in The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 / edited by Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992, pp.185-186.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874455
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Drawn by Wm. Curtis. April 1847. / Wellington N.S. Wales. at lower right
• Name
  Wiradjuri (Australian people)
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bush huts
  corroborees
  picture frames
  rugs (blankets)
  
• Place
  Wellington (N.S.W)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Living Language: Country, Culture, Community - State Library of New South Wales (13 July - 17 November, 2019)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1106424

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