• Title
  Group of Australian Aborigines, ca. 1838 / possibly by, or after, John Carmichael
• Creator
  John Carmichael, 1803-1857
• Call number
  DL Pd 30
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1838
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  836747
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - lithograph - 15.3 x 28 cm, on sheet 22.6 x 28.5 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Two male aborigines are fighting with clubs, a male and female are drinking from bottles, and standing male, seated female and naked child are onlookers. All except the child are in European dress. There is an element of caricature. The etching in Maclehose (see date note below) is of three figures resembling the drinking couple and the child, together with two dogs
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Untitled
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned.
• Date note
  
  Dated from similar etching by Carmichael in Maclehose, James 'The picture of Sydney ... for 1838', Sydney : J. Maclehose, 1838 (Sydney : Printed by J. Spilsbury), opposite page 164.
• Conservation note
  
  Slightly foxed, with tear at top edge
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  groups (people)
  fights
  clubs (weapons)
  

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