• 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
  
  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

View Media Files

1.

Show more