[Portrait of] Simon, an Australian Aborigine of the Yarra Yarra tribe which opposed the landing of B...
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[Portrait of] Simon, an Australian Aborigine of the Yarra Yarra tribe which opposed the landing of B...
[Portrait of] Simon, an Australian Aborigine of the Yarra Yarra tribe which opposed the landing of Batman, 1835, photographed 189-? / Gould, lithographer; Perry, photographer
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
189-
Call Numbers
DL Pe 12
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 photomechanical print - printed area, excluding title, 24.4. x 18.5 cm, sheet 33.8 x 26.2 cm - photolithograph with tinted ground
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Copy print : DL Pe 12
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
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Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Subject is seated, holding spear and club
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Portrait of] Simon, an Australian Aborigine of the Yarra Yarra tribe which opposed the landing of Batman, 1835, photographed 189-? / Gould, lithographer; Perry, photographer
Notes
General note
Printed area not an exact rectangle
Attributions / Conjectures
There is a J. Perry listed among photographers in Melbourne directory for 1893, and a G.W. Perry 1894-1897. Could not see in Sydney directories of the 1880s
Date note
Dating as 189-? based on activity in photolithography, as shown by directories. It could be earlier
Conservation note
Foxed, stained and torn, specially the lower half
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952
Spencer List number: 171P
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL Pe 12
Record Identifier
92eVVByY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVVByY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
901356
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