• Title
  Toulgra a native of New South Wales, 1800 [1802] / taken from life by Monsr. Petitt [Petit] & Peron
• Creator
  Nicolas-Martin Petit, 1777-1804
• Call number
  P2/560
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [1802]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9588560
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - black pencil or dark graphite on brown toned laid paper - 27.6 x 21.6 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Toulgra/Toul-gra, or Bulldog (Bouldogue), a 14 or 15 year old boy, drawn by Nicolas-Martin Petit, artist on Nicolas Baudin’s expedition to Australia. The portrait is one of a series Petit produced of Aboriginal people in New South Wales while the French expedition spent a lengthy layover at Port Jackson between 20 June and 18 November 1802.
  
  This portrait of Toulgra was one of nine plates of portraits of Aboriginal people from New South Wales engraved after drawings by Petit and were published in the second edition (1824) of the official account of the Baudin voyage.
  
  Toulgra is an important historical figure for the Eora people of Sydney. He was born near Parramatta around the time of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, the son of Bennelong’s sister Worogan and Yerinibe of the Burramattagal (Parramatta) according to Keith Vincent Smith's research published in Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys. Bennelong was living nearby when the French visited Parramatta in 1802 and this sketch was drawn. Toulgra, along with Musquito, Gnung-a Gnung-a, and Bidgee Bidgee, (all drawn by Petit) were related by marriage to Bennelong.
• Collection history
  Private collection (Bath, England)
• Scope and Content
  A drawing of a young Aboriginal boy in profile. The image is titled "TOULGRA" below the drawing, and he was 14 or 15 years old when drawn by Nicolas-Martin Petit, an artist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title taken from inscription verso of drawing
• Variant title
  
  Toulgra (Bulldog), Port Jackson, New South Wales, 1802 / Nicholas-Martin Petit
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed verso of drawing in graphite "Toulgra A Native of New South Wales / taken from life by Monsr. Petitt & Peron / 1800 / 1800". Inscribed "Toulgra" in graphite below image.
• Date note
  
  Verso of drawing is dated "1800/1800". However the Baudin expedition was in Port Jackson from 20 June 1802 to mid-November 1802.
• Name
  Toulgra, b. ca. 1788
  
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians in art.
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales.
  Aboriginal Australians--Portraits.
  Aboriginal Australians.
  
• Topic
  boys
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Amaze Gallery, 6 October 2018-2019 - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9000061

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