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Print depicting formal Aboriginal combat scene from the time of the Baudin voyage, ca 1825

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    Print depicting formal Aboriginal combat scene from the time of the Baudin voyage, ca 1825

    Call numbers

    SV/308

    Record identifier

    Yezd0PW9

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    Print depicting formal Aboriginal combat scene from the time of the Baudin voyage, ca 1825

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    Print depicting formal Aboriginal combat scene from the time of the Baudin voyage, ca 1825

    Full title

    Print depicting formal Aboriginal combat scene from the time of the Baudin voyage, ca 1825

    Date

    ca 1825

    Call Numbers

    SV/308

    Record Identifier

    Yezd0PW9

    Formats

    Pictures and Prints

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    1 print - 27.5 x 35.0 cm - engraved colour printed plate, highlighted in red by hand

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Access and use

    Copying Conditions

    Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955

    Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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    Ask a Librarian online or in the reading room.

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Australia--Discovery and exploration--French. Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales. spears clubs (weapons) woomeras shields (weapons) body-marking Baudin, Nicolas, 1754-1803

    More information

    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    The print depicts Aboriginal people in New South Wales circa 1802. Several of the figures are using or holding weapons, including long spears with barbed tips, white shields with ochre strapping, clubs, and spear throwers. In the background, standing on one leg, is a figure who bears close comparison with the man known as ‘Morore’ but named as ‘Cou...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    Print depicting formal Aboriginal combat scene from the time of the Baudin voyage, ca 1825

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Artists

    — NOTES

    Signature / Inscriptions

    ‘pomel Sc.’ inscribed lower.

    Attributions / Conjectures

    After print by Pierre-Antoine Marchais after Nicolas-Martin Petit.

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Purchased from Hordern House Rare Books, ANZAAB bookfair, July 2015, No. 28.

    Administrative / Biographical history

    This plate was probably produced as a planned inclusion in the atlas ‘Historique’ of the Freycinet voyage (published 1825) and due to the lack of any captions may be said to represent an abandoned proof or trial printing. The plate is based on an original watercolour attributed to Antoine Marchais (fl. 1820s) after Nicolas-Martin Petit. Marchais worked on scenes relating to the Baudin voyage in the 1820s, whilst simultaneously working on newer plates relating to the Freycinet voyage.

    References:
    Marchais (fl.1820s) after Nicolas-Martin Petit. http://www.christies.com/ (accessed 16 November 2015), and information provided by vendor....

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    SV/308

    Record Identifier

    Yezd0PW9

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yezd0PW9

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    1373537

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