Five half-length portraits of Aborigines [picture] / [Port Jackson Painter]
- Bib ID:
- 192120
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Port Jackson Painter, active 1788-1792
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [ca. 1790]
- 1 drawing : gouache ; 38.5 x 55 cm.
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK 144/C.
- Notes:
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- Previously attributed to John Hunter; see discussion p.208-210 of: The art of the First Fleet / ed. by Bernard Smith and Alwyne Wheeler.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK144/C.
- Title from accession record.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-135225133
- Exhibited: Drawing in Australia, ANG, 1988; Deja vu, NLA, 1989; Discerning Eye, RNK Collection, Sydney 1992; Melbourne 1992-1993.
- T2129.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Costume and adornment -- Early works to 1800
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Weapons -- Early works to 1800
- Implements, utensils, etc -- New South Wales -- Early works to 1800
- Picture -- NLA exhibition 1989
- Picture -- Travelling exhibition 1992-1993
- Exhibited:
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- Exhibited: "Treasures Gallery", National Library of Australia, 7 October 2011 - 15 December 2012.
- Exhibited: Bridging the Distance, National Library of Australia, 5 March 2008 - 15 June 2008
- Exhibited: 'World Upside Down', NLA, Canberra 2000
- Exhibited: National Gallery of Victoria: Australian colonial art, March - July 2018
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1792
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1790
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