Proclamation to the aborigines, ca. 1828-30 / Thomas Davey

V/150

fonds

ca. 1828-30

Graphic Materials, Drawings

837026

1 drawing - pen and ink with watercolour - 42.4 x 25.2 cm, inside frame lines, on paper 49 x 32.7 cm

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.

Reproduced in black & white, and described as a hand coloured lithograph, probably from the 1860s, in Flower, C. 'Duck and cabbage tree'. Sydney, A&R, 1968, page 21.

'H' is inscribed beneath frame line, lower left. 'Governor Davey's Proclamation to the Aborigines 1816' is inscribed at upper centre.
"Why Massa Gubernor said Black Jack - You proflamation all gammon - how blackfellow read him eh' He no learn him read Book".
"Read that then, said the Governor pointing to a Picture" is inscribed beneath image, within frame lines. The lettering appears to be by hand; the image may be lithographed.