• Title
  Sauvages de la Nouvelle Galles du Sud d'apres nature dans leur Camp pres de Sidney - 20 decembre 1819 / [attributed to Alphonse Pellion]
• Creator
  Alphonse Pellion
• Call number
  SV/119
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1819
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  446656
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 ink drawing on paper - image 18.4 x 14.2 cm. on sheet 23.2 x 18.2 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Portrait of an Aboriginal man seated.
• General note
  
  Pellion, a topographical artist and mid-shipman, was a member on the Louis de Freycinet French expedition which visited Sydney in November and December 1819. In late November 1819 Pellion, with two French companions, set out for the recently established town of Bathurst.
  In the official account of the expedition this Aboriginal man is identified as Hara-o from the lower Blue Mountains. See Plate 101 `Nlle. Hollande: Port-Jackson. Sauvages des Montagnes-Bleues. 1. Hara-o; 2. Karadra' in: `Voyage autour du monde : fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les annes 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 : Atlas historique / par Mrs. JS. Arago, A. Pellion &c'. Paris : Chez Pillet An, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1825.
  Related Works:
  This drawing by Pellion appears to be a field drawing. For further information about Pellion's encounter with Hara-o and related drawings see: Preparatory drawings and etchings at various states for the plate 'N.LLE HOLLANDE : Port Jackson. SAUVAGES DES MONTAGNES BLEUE. 1. Hara-o; 2. Karadra'] / Alphonse Pellion (PXD 923/6-10)
  Another field drawing by Pellion with the same title and date is held at SV/118.
  Digital order no:a928389
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title (below image) translated: Savages from New South Wales, from real life in their camp close to Sydney, 20 December 1819
  Inscription (above image) translated: Hair with shiny strands & tinted in oily red / dirty red-black tinted / tawny brown iris
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  expeditions
  portraits
  
• Place
  Blue Mountains Region (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3317208

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