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Title
Australian Aborigines, pre 1806 / attributed to George Charles Jenner and W.W. [William Waterhouse]
Creator
George Charles Jenner
William Waterhouse, 1752?-1822
Call number
DGB 10
Level of description
fonds
Date

pre 1806
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
447340
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
Drawings - 12 watercolours - 17 x 11 cm. within double frame lines on sheets 20 x 14 cm. - mild foxing
Drawings - 1 pen & wash on light board, pasted to circular sheet - 8 x 6 cm. on sheet 8 x 8 cm. at widest points
Drawings - 1 silhouette on irregular shaped paper - 7 x 8 cm. at widest points
Scope and Content
f.1 Aboriginal man with shield, spear thrower and spear, in action of throwing.
f.2 Aboriginal man with a club.
f.3 Aboriginal man with conical head-dress holding a club.
f.4 Aboriginal man fishing with a five-pronged fishing spear.
f.5 Aboriginal man holding spear with a throwing stick in his belt.
Signed "Cn Lewellen[?]", in ink on reverse
f.6 Aboriginal man holding a five-pronged fishing spear and offering a fish.
f.7 Aboriginal man with club and shield.
f.8 Aboriginal woman sitting with a child on her back.
f.9 Aboriginal woman sitting opposite child who is offering her something.
f.10 Aboriginal woman carrying a basket, with a child on her shoulders.
f.11 Aboriginal woman in canoe fishing with a line.
f.12 Aboriginal woman suckling a baby with another child alongside holding dog.
f.13 Portrait of Bennelong - Signed "W.W." beneath portrait
Inscribed "Bennelong one of two natives the first brought from New South Wales by Govr. Hunter and Captn. Waterhouse", on reverse in unidentified contemporary hand
f.14 Silhouette of Yemmerawanie.
Inscribed "Yuremany one of the first natives brought from New South Wales by Govr. Hunter and Captn. Waterhouse", on reverse in unidentified contemporary hand
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Variant title

Watercolours originally titled "Natives of New South Wales, pre 1806" based on the contemporary title of another similar set `Natives of New South Wales; drawn from life in Botany Bay' at PXB 513.
General note

Research notes compiled by F.D. McCarthy, D.Sc. (Hons.), ANU, Dip. Anthrop. (Sydney), April 1981, comparing three sets of watercolour paintings of Aborigines are available at PXn 590, Mitchell Library Reading Room.
McCarthy compares:
Natives of New South Wales; drawn from life in Botany Bay (Mitchell Library PXB 513)
Australian Aborigines, pre 1806 (Mitchell Library DGB 10)
Australian aborigines drawn from life / by Captain Tetley, c. 1805 ; Edited by J. Stevens Cox. St. Peter Port, Guernsey : Toucan Press, 1977.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823514
Attributions / conjectures

ff. 1-12 attributed to Jenner, f. 13 attributed to W.W.
Attribution based on information in similar set of watercolours `Natives of New South Wales; drawn from life in Botany Bay' (PXB 513).
For further research notes on attribution see 'Australian Aborigines, 12 watercolours' (PXn 266).
Date note

Undated, however a watermark on one sheet reads 1798
Name
Bennelong, approximately 1764-1813
Subject
Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Portraits
Aboriginal Australians--Portraits.
Bennelong, approximately 1764-1813--Portraits.
Adult Males
Adult Females
Infants--Pictorial works.
Topic
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
portraits
silhouettes
Exhibited in

The coming of the strangers : life in Australia, 1788-1822 - State Library of New South Wales (20 January - 31 December, 1988). Applies to: f.13,14
A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (September 1997 - January 1998). Applies to: f.13
Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (June 2006 - August 2006). Applies to: f.13,14
Mari Nawi : Aboriginal Odysseys 1790-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (September 2010 - December 2010). Applies to: f.13
Amaze Gallery 2014 - State Library of New South Wales