• Title
  Portrait of Bennilong [i.e. Bennelong]..., 180-?
• Call number
  P2/511
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  180?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  903183
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - engraving, hand coloured - plate mark 21.2 x 16.5 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  A portrait in profile of Bennelong dressed in a European jacket and neckscarf surrounded by an oval frame decorated with Aboriginal weapons and curios.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Title below portrait continues, '...a native of New Holland, who after experiencing for two years the Luxuries of England, returned to his own Country and resumed all his savage Habits.'
  Published in Modern and authentic system of universal geography : containing an accurate and entertaining description of Europe, Asia, Africa and America ... / by George Alexander Cooke. London : Printed for C. Cooke ... by Brimmer and Co. ... and sold by all the booksellers in the United Kingdom, [180-?], vol I, opp. p. 239.
  
  Similar to the portrait in An account of the English colony in New South Wales : with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand / compiled, by permission, from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King by David Collins ...London : Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798-1802, vol. 1, p. 439, but reversed and surrounding weapons and medallions differing.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 971168
• Date note
  
  Dated by Hordern House catalogue.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Aborigines, no. 6, Hordern House, June 2010. http://www.hordern.com (accessed 31 August 2010)
• Subject
  Bennelong, approximately 1764-1813--Portraits.
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Portraits
  
• Topic
  portraits
  engravings
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Utzon's Opera House - S.H. Ervin Gallery (22 November, 2013 - 19 January, 2014)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE214555

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