My Korsit [or Koreit?] native boy, Mt. [i.e. Mount] Rouse settlement, June 1842 / drawn by Charles G...
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My Korsit [or Koreit?] native boy, Mt. [i.e. Mount] Rouse settlement, June 1842 / drawn by Charles G...
My Korsit [or Koreit?] native boy, Mt. [i.e. Mount] Rouse settlement, June 1842 / drawn by Charles Griffith
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
June 1842
Call Numbers
P2/503
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Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - image 12.9 x 9.9 cm, on album page 28.0 x 21.6 cm - pencil
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
A head and torso pencil portrait of an Aboriginal boy wearing an animal skin coat over his shoulders.
Alternative Titles
Full title
My Korsit [or Koreit?] native boy, Mt. [i.e. Mount] Rouse settlement, June 1842 / drawn by Charles Griffith
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:a4154001...
Signature / Inscriptions
Title and date inscribed in pencil below portrait. Inscribed in different hand[?] in pencil on album page at lower right of portrait 'by Mr Charles Griffith'.
Object History
The album page reportedly came from a folio of drawings belonging to Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury (1809-1885), paleobotanist and plant collector, and associate of Charles Darwin. Griffith visited Ireland in the 1840s and may have met Bunbury at this time and given him the drawing. It is inscribed 'by Mr Charles Griffith' in Bunbury's hand. The...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, May 2010
Administrative / Biographical history
Charles James Griffith (1808-1863), a pastoralist and politician, was born in Ireland, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was admitted to the Irish Bar. He migrated to the Port Phillip District in 1840 and with James Moore took up the Glenmore run near Melton. In 1848, Griffith and his nephew Molesworth Greene bought Mount Hope and Mount Py...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
P2/503
Record Identifier
YdmdaXe9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YdmdaXe9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
900454
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